Except that it seems in the actual related experiment on which the parable is likely based, the monkeys didn’t behave as described in the “teaching” story.

Also, being a professor in a university myself, I can say with quite certainty that there is NO WAY funding would continue in such a situation. Research money is rare and precious, highly competitive, and must be re-justified regularly. I had a three-year NSF grant and had to fight to keep it each year. Worse, the story portrays internal university funding… that’s a joke because internal grant money is generally extremely small, on the order of 1K or 2K, not nearly enough to keep a project like this going for years.

What is the point of a “teaching” story that has no basis in reality?