Posted on 06/21/2022 12:28:00 PM PDT by ChipMarne
ANALYSIS: Increasingly, scholars and the media link so-called animal privilege with economic and sociological terms such as inequality and intergenerational wealth
“Squirrel privilege is real.” “Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom.” “Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality.”
These headlines hail from Salon and The New York Times, respectively, and represent a growing trend among scholars and the media to tackle animal “inequality” — and also argue humans can learn important lessons about income inequality and privilege from such studies.
“Inequality is a threat to our social fabric, but it’s not just a human problem,” argued the World Economic Forum in January in a piece that connected human and non-human inequality.
Headlined “Inequality is not confined to humans. Animals are divided by privilege, too,” it was based on an essay published in Behavioral Ecology in December 2021, an essay which helped spawn a spate of recent articles on the topic.
“Mammals, fish, birds and even insects have been shown to benefit from inherited wealth and abilities,” the forum’s report stated. “…Some have a better quality of life than other members of the same species – including access to food and shelter – just because of their parents’ status.”
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And praying mantises
“The world operates on merit”
That’s something worth remembering!
If someone works hard all his life and saves, shouldn’t he be able to pass it along to his offspring? If not, why bother building society?
Leo the Lion say’s what about it, Punk!-)
Walking through forests of palm tree apartments
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents
Down by the waterhole, drunk every Friday
Eating their nuts, saving their raisins for Sunday
Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
They’re fast but they’re lazy, and sleep in green meadows
Well, let’s bungle in the jungle
Well, that’s all right by me, yes
Well, I’m a tiger when I want love
But I’m a snake if we disagree
Just say a word and the boys will be right there
With claws at your back to send a chill through the night air
Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn’t be bolder
I’ll write on your tombstone, I thank you for dinner
This game that we animals play is a winner
Well, let’s bungle in the jungle
Well, that’s all right by me, yes
I’m a tiger when I want love
I’m a snake if we disagree, yes
The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
And he who made kittens put snakes in their grasp
He’s a lover of life but a player of pawns
Yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
To light up His Jungle as play is resumed
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune
Well, let’s bungle in the jungle
Well, that’s all right by me, yes
I’m a tiger when I want love
And I’m a snake when we disagree, yes
Let’s bungle in the jungle
Well, that’s all right by me, yes
Well, I’m a tiger when I want love
I’m a snake when we disagree
Well, let’s bungle in the jungle
Well, that’s all right by me, yes
I’m a tiger when I want love
Not a thing.
So if you see a family of squirrels living large, burn their burrows down, remove their nut trees and introduce a family of coyotes to the area to make it fair and keep it real
Unlike American humans, wolves don’t pick the weakest to lead the pack.
The private jet crowd is worried about inequality? That's pretty...forgive me...rich.
Marx and Engles were both obsessed with the idea of ancient man being communist, ie no hierarchy in class. This is completely debunked now, there’s always been chiefs and workers back before homo Sapien-primates, but they still will believe it.
Pray what can be done?
Has the balance and interrelationship of predators and prey been suddenly discovered? Is that inequality? Does anyone in their right mind give a rat’s a$$? Is using the phrase “rat’s a$$” inherent inequality? Is the only society that is still composed of a majority of sane people found near the headwaters of the Amazon?
Who in their right mind reads Salon, or the NY TIMES???
What Phu King nonsense!!!
BINGO!!!
Huh?
Isn’t it called the Food Chain for a reason?
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Is this the Bee?
LOL!!!
Welcome to FR.
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Science is going totally woke - and the real benefits to humans will be negative and reduce prosperity, growth, and actual “equality”.
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