Monkeys to replace humans as workers??

[esad]

From this picture on Yahoo

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Monkeys ride on the back of a pickup truck fully loaded with coconuts after collecting them from a plantation in Chumphon province, southern Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006. The monkeys, the pig-tailed macaques, can quickly scamper up the trunk of a coconut palm, select the ripe ones and with a twist and pull the fruit will drop to the ground. 'One monkey can pick about 300 coconuts a day. The monkey works 10 times quicker than a man,' said Somboon Cheumuang, the monkeys' owner. About 1,200 trained monkey are working as coconut pickers in the country's southern coastal provinces of Prachuab Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Surat Thani, Ranong and Nakhon Si Thammarat.

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So, if you can train monkeys to do this couldn't you train them to do a bunch of other manual labor jobs? Can a Planet of the Apes like scenario be not too far off?

[bisonbison]

Of course he's hyping monkey labor, he's cornered the market!

[TheDudeAbides]

And every night the monkey butlers will regale us with jungle stories.

[disjunction]

Never mix monkeys with work.

[JasonK]

The Careerbuilder commercials are a glimpse into the future.

[Ron Burgundy]

[Frogpond]

[econophile]

[Dynasty]

2+2 is way ahead of this guy. We've had a bunch of monkeys as mods for a while now.