Tools for monkeys are tools that serve a purpose for those in our society who do jobs that management believe a trained monkey could do. While we are still a long ways off from a world in which monkeys actually can do these tasks they are secretly called monkeys by the ever-so-superior management classes of corporate America. These tools for the monkeys are actually simple calculators, items that can be used by the monkey brethren in the furtherance of their duties, and a way to reduce the actual workload in some manner or another. Many of the tools are skewed towards the financial industry, where calculators are necessary to do one's job. These calculators are based on the simple idea that we as monkeys do not have the time or the patience to go through the bullspit of calculating everything by hand, when a simple plug-n-play Javascript calculator will do just fine. Why use a handsaw when there's a perfectly good jigsaw in your corner?

Why not? Management has trained monkeys pulling reports and deciphering them for them. Why should the monkeys do all the work? It is time that the monkeys revolt. If I'm getting paid to be a monkey, I might as well only do the work of a monkey. Or, better yet use tools designed for monkeys to look a touch more competent and thusly get a raise and promotion! I figure if I get a few steps higher I won't ever need to think again, and I think you should come to the top with me.

I don't know what you mean. There are tools for monkeys to get work done and there are tools for monkeys to entertain them. There are no pointless tools. If you don't know how or why to use a tool, don't use it. What are you a lemur? And I'll thank you not to make fun of them.