Sarah Brosnan : Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness

 Why monkeys and humans are wired for fairness 
Summary 

The speaker is a scientist and a primatologist. We know that monkeys and humans’ actions are alike and she tells us that both of them have a sense of fairness. Her study showed that a monkey also wanted to get the same food that an immediate monkey was eating.  If the monkey knew that neighborhood had different food and it could get from exchanging, she wanted to exchange to get the same as humans would do. 

And then, the speaker explains that humans have advanced cognitive abilities to be able to plan more than monkeys. It means that humans can think that they are equal or become equal in the near future if we work together and we believe that our economic connection relates fairness and cooperation strongly, though, if we feel that it’s not changing, our society and communities will be breaking. 

This must be our current society. People feel left out of the reward and benefits of the system, they will stop participating, and the whole system will fall apart. Humans naturally and evolutionarily reject unfairness like monkeys, but we must have the ability to change it more than monkeys.