Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk

Monkeys can identify inequality, maybe one day the Liberal party will evolve enough to see it too

By turnleft2013 on February 28, 2014 • ( 7 )

The current Liberal-National government want to start charging
pensioners $6 to see a doctor because “the age of entitlement is over”
says Joe Hockey, while wanting to give the 1% women of calibre $75,000 to have a baby.


Either the LNP can see how discriminatory that is to the most
disadvantaged and do not care, or they don’t care enough to see it.


The current government is in the process of transforming Australia
from a country that takes care of the most disadvantage to one that
rewards the most advantaged with a transfer of resources and money from
the poor, the working-poor, the old on pensions, those on disability
pensions, those in low paid professions such as child carers and
disability carers, to those who are already wealthy.


What happens when you pay two monkeys unequally? Watch what happens.

An excerpt from the TED Talk: “Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in
animals”, focussing on empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity —
caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait, but
is it?.