If we assume monkeys and humans share the same basic mental programming--an assumption some economists refuse to accept--then looking at how monkeys cooperate with eachother and consume scarce resources might show certain patterns that are common to all primates.
There is no force more effective than free markets to reallocate resources and redistribute wealth from the undeserving and unproductive, politically connected elites to the hardworking political nobodies who consume the real goods and services eachother produce.
Increasingly, people are learning where they want to go, what they want to consume, how they want to engage with news or games or a variety of different things from eachother.