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by mr_blobs 3490 days ago
Reality is more like:

2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group.

The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more).

They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.

1 comments

Despite the exaggeration (2 out 10), this is actually an issue in the Nordic countries, so I do not understand the downvote.
In what way is that an issue in the Nordic countries?
2 out of 10 is really close in the US.