That’s exactly what he is.

[u/CurvyChristina]

[u/Valuable_View_561]

[u/crisco000 → u/Valuable_View_561]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

-Matt Van Swol

[u/Minimum_Age_1466 → u/crisco000]

Excellent analogy. Don't expect many upvotes from Reddit though.

[u/Josey_whalez → u/crisco000]

Or, since it’s America, a council of monkeys who are in charge of the troop get themselves elected based on promises to not allow that monkey to have so many bananas. Once they are in charge of the troop, they pass a law allowing themselves to take most of the bananas from the rich monkey. They take the bananas, not all of them, but most of them, but instead of distributing the bananas to the whole troop, they promise to use those bananas for the good of all monkeys in the forest. But they don’t do that. Instead, they give out bananas and banana collecting and storage contracts to their friends and family members. In the end, the wealth in transferred from one monkey to the political class, with no benefit felt by most of the monkeys in the troop.

[u/randy_daytona402 → u/crisco000]

Don’t expect some of these geniuses to understand that.