Comments on: The Inevitable Profession

By: small dead animals

small dead animals — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:24:36 +0000

Monkey Business...

"Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency." Related! 1-900-PRIMATE......

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:34:58 +0000

Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency. The result? The monkeys used their newfound currency to buy sex:

Personally, I'm waiting for the Animal rights crowd to start in on the loan industry claiming these monkeys were sucked in by misleading rates attached to ARMs.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:12:51 +0000

I'm sure Chaucer was observing monkey-business when he coined the phrase," Radix malorum est Cupiditas."

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:38:54 +0000

In looking for an illustration for this story (tip: Don’t Google “monkey sex” photos at work…) I came across stories about how shrewd monkeys are at business and their strong sense of fair play. Make of that what you will.

Sure they're all decent folks til we introduce them to money. Then it's all fornication and gluttony.

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:21:31 +0000

I for one welcome our new lusty simian overlords and would like to remind them, that although a physicist, I was never involved in shooting their ancestors into space.

If they manage to teach the monkey's to buy viagra and diet pills madison avenue won't need us at all.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:40:49 +0000

Friedman was right, the FREE MARKET WORKS!

By: just me

just me — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:40:08 +0000

Well prostitution is called the oldest profession-looks like the monkeys just proved it.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:19:56 +0000

God knows what conclusions would have been drawn had the monkeys be Bonobos.

By: Patrick T. McGuire

Patrick T. McGuire — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:59:41 +0000

And what happened when a monkey offered money in exchange for sex but was refused? Was any monkey spanked as a result?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

By: “Will do a monkey for a grape” « Happycrow’s Eyeball Factory

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:05 +0000

[...] “Will do a monkey for a grape” Well, sort of. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:28:20 +0000

I know that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for corrupting youth. What's the proper penalty for economists corrupting capuchin monkeys?

Forcing them to remain economists?

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:44 +0000

I know that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for corrupting youth. What's the proper penalty for economists corrupting capuchin monkeys?