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[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If a Monkey tried to collect two hundred and thirty billion bananas - he would've been ripped in half by the other monkeys with his head on a banana pike as a warning. This is not 'business as usual'....

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

And we're not monkeys. What an awful analogy considering monkeys have no concept of hoarding wealth, much less any other facets of human society that drives wealth acquisition at the expense of others.