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It's more funny/sad if you consider how successful chicken are from this point of view.
chickens as a species, sure, but there's something to be said about the happiness of each individual chicken. read a book once that was like "the more successful a species as a collective is, the less happy each individual is" or smth like that :(
Symbiosis doesn't mean both parties are happy about it.
EVOLUTION DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HAPPY
Appreciate your gut bacteria. They love you too.
If you want there to be a lot of your species, the best thing to do is become delicious to humans.
Unless you're a giant tortoise.
It took 300 years to properly classify them. Specimens never survived the voyage back to Europe because they were too delicious.