[QUOTE=davar55;394858]They don't count the tokens, they don't save (accumulate for the future) any of them, they just offer them for exchange.
This is more like reflexive barter than money use. May look similar, but the difference is vast.[/QUOTE]
So they barter and, on occasions like the following, show planning but we haven't caught them putting the two together as yet.

[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimpanzee-plans-throws-stones-zoo/"]Planning of the Apes: Zoo Chimp Plots Rock Attacks on Visitors[/URL]
[QUOTE]Workers wondered where Santino was getting his ammunition (there weren't many stones just laying around the island) and decided to investigate. One morning, they discovered several piles of three to five stones carefully placed along the waterfront. They suspected that Santino must have been stockpiling them in anticipation of throwing them – and that they came from the water in the moat, because they were covered with algae. To confirm their suspicions, a zoo worker began watching the chimps from a building overlooking the island every morning, and discovered that Santino –the only one of the bunch that threw stones -- would routinely reach into the moat and scoop out rocks, placing them in piles along the waterfront. He would always scavenge before the zoo opened at 10:00 A.M., so that his arsenal was ready for his 11 A.M. show.

Over the years, Santino's operation has become increasingly sophisticated, Osvath says, progressing from simple gathering to fabrication. He has been observed chipping away at the concrete rocks on the island with his hands to sculpt dessert plate–size discs to launch at zoo visitors. In the past decade, zoo workers have witnessed him throwing stones on about 50 separate occasions. Santino has managed to hit a handful of gawkers during his assaults but, happily, none have been injured[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;394861]So they barter and, on occasions like the following, show planning but we haven't caught them putting the two together as yet.
[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimpanzee-plans-throws-stones-zoo/"]Planning of the Apes: Zoo Chimp Plots Rock Attacks on Visitors[/URL][/QUOTE]

That's quite interesting. It also provides evidence of intellectual evolution - some
ancestor of humanity must have gone through just some such process.

("Dizzy" from the thread title rolller-coaster.)

[QUOTE=davar55;394862]That's quite interesting. It also provides evidence of intellectual evolution - some
ancestor of humanity must have gone through just some such process.

("Dizzy" from the thread title rolller-coaster.)[/QUOTE]

I'll give you that one. What you just said was _really_ funny! :smile:

[QUOTE=davar55;394655]... which is the relationship of capitalism to freedom.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;394862]("Dizzy" from the thread title rolller-coaster.)[/QUOTE]
After I decided that the reset was successfully accomplished, I set it to what you described as the thread topic.

Part 2: [url]http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2015/02/09/on-the-skepticism-of-free-market-economics-part-2-no-true-capitalism/[/url]

[QUOTE=axn;395068]Part 2: [url]http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2015/02/09/on-the-skepticism-of-free-market-economics-part-2-no-true-capitalism/[/url][/QUOTE]

Waiting for an expensive SQL query to complete...

Found [URL="http://skepticinkcom.c.presscdn.com/tippling/files/2015/02/Image898.png"]this[/URL] really funny. :smile:

[QUOTE=chalsall;395101]Waiting for an expensive SQL query to complete...

Found [URL="http://skepticinkcom.c.presscdn.com/tippling/files/2015/02/Image898.png"]this[/URL] really funny. :smile:[/QUOTE]

+1!

[QUOTE=chalsall;395101]Waiting for an expensive SQL query to complete...

Found [URL="http://skepticinkcom.c.presscdn.com/tippling/files/2015/02/Image898.png"]this[/URL] really funny. :smile:[/QUOTE]

No rules? When did any of them advocate no rules? Totally incorrect.

[QUOTE=davar55;395127]No rules? When did any of them advocate no rules? Totally incorrect.[/QUOTE]

Everyone for themselves?

[QUOTE=chalsall;395129]Everyone for themselves?[/QUOTE]

Do you think that's what they mean / meant, or are you recommending this?

Part 3 (concluding part) [url]http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2015/02/12/on-the-skepticism-of-free-market-economics-part-3-free-market-success-stories/[/url]
and an appendix [url]http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2015/02/11/appendix-to-on-the-skepticism-of-free-market-economics/[/url]