this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago (15 children)

It is called symbiosis, where both sides profit.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That’s stupid, why share the profits when I can take it all for myself?

[–] Exosus 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well if you leech too many resources one of two things will happen:

  1. The host will remove you and kill you
  2. The host dies and you along with it

A parasite becoming too greedy will seal its own fate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You forget the 3rd option, I hire some worms to eat the roots of anyone that tries to stop me and I move onto the next tree.

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