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Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay
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Primatologist Frans de Waal shows an experiment in which capuchin monkeys refuse a reward after seeing a partner get a better one for the same task. It illustrates a sense of fairness in primates.
HN cites it in discussions of pay fairness and inequality as a short, funny demonstration of the fairness instinct.
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