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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A while back I looked for a source for this. Apparently it never happened.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Literally made up in one of those "how to get rich" garbage books.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's more of a thought experiment than a real occurrence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, it might not have happened with chimpanzees, but it happens all the time with humans. So I see it more as a good allegory than a true story.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Like Peasant-brains defending oligarch billionaires or attacking socialists who try to help them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's a Aesop.