Bullying Underlings

Watch a troop of ring-tailed lemurs. The alpha animals bully the others into letting them have the choicest food and into restricting the calories of the non-alpha animals. Humans have devised a way to do the same thing much more efficiently. The alpha humans give the others a pay cheque once a month. This gives them total control of the underling’s consumption and it keeps the underlings in subjection because without the pay cheque they have no access to food or shelter.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)