
grondilu
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You probably know about this famous capuchin experiment.
If you don't please watch this video, it's short and kind of fun anyway.
This experiment is usually mentioned in debates about economic inequality, but I believe it's more general that that.
There are a few social interactions that are out of the economic realm. Like friendships, love and sex. Basically, human relations are extremely valuable things to have in life, arguably much more than say money and other material resources.
In the capuchin experiment, the cucumber-fed subject is fine with eating cucumber as long as it doesn't see the other subject being fed grape.
I bet if he could just not see it again, he would eventually either forget about it, or convince himself it's not happening.
Maybe we're just like that. For a long time, sex was taboo. Women dressed modestly, there was very little pornography, women were not bragging about their sexual adventures on cuckit, and so on.
Now, we know Chad exists. We know he is fed grape, and we see him eating some everywhere. We could chose not to see it, look elsewhere and enjoy some sexless hobby. It's definitely possible, lots of guys do.
But we don't want to. We're pissed off. We live in a society where everybody is supposed to be equal, we obey the same rules, and we're expected to help each other, but clearly it's a society that benefits some much more than others.
Society is a rigged game, what we are supposed to gain are game tokens (called money) but we can't exchange them to get what Chad is getting. Chad is not getting grape because he plays the game better, but just because he is Chad.
We're supposed to just eat our cucumber and stop whining.
Society has many rules. If it keeps feeding us cucumber while feeding Chad grape, why should we keep obeying those rules ?
If you don't please watch this video, it's short and kind of fun anyway.
This experiment is usually mentioned in debates about economic inequality, but I believe it's more general that that.
There are a few social interactions that are out of the economic realm. Like friendships, love and sex. Basically, human relations are extremely valuable things to have in life, arguably much more than say money and other material resources.
In the capuchin experiment, the cucumber-fed subject is fine with eating cucumber as long as it doesn't see the other subject being fed grape.
I bet if he could just not see it again, he would eventually either forget about it, or convince himself it's not happening.
Maybe we're just like that. For a long time, sex was taboo. Women dressed modestly, there was very little pornography, women were not bragging about their sexual adventures on cuckit, and so on.
Now, we know Chad exists. We know he is fed grape, and we see him eating some everywhere. We could chose not to see it, look elsewhere and enjoy some sexless hobby. It's definitely possible, lots of guys do.
But we don't want to. We're pissed off. We live in a society where everybody is supposed to be equal, we obey the same rules, and we're expected to help each other, but clearly it's a society that benefits some much more than others.
Society is a rigged game, what we are supposed to gain are game tokens (called money) but we can't exchange them to get what Chad is getting. Chad is not getting grape because he plays the game better, but just because he is Chad.
We're supposed to just eat our cucumber and stop whining.
Society has many rules. If it keeps feeding us cucumber while feeding Chad grape, why should we keep obeying those rules ?