• kay@lemmings.worldOP
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        No. Flat out no. There is no competition and they’re literally providing what they are capable of to take care of the others’ need. Mutual aid is not a marketplace and the fact you instinctually thought of it that way tells me you need a book on capitalist realism.

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            Not all competition is mediated via markets. Mushrooms will compete by injecting themselves into their adversaries using their own internal pressure.

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              Yeha, but they are showing an instance of nature in which things work one way and ask "why can’t humans XYZ if even a mushroom can? ", but there are also plenty of instances in which nature is savage.

              There is a constant war in the roots of trees, does that mean humans should be in constant war?

              Plus, there IS a profit incentive. Those mushrooms are trading. What they get in return is the profit incentive.

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                Trading for food to eat is now “profit incentive”? How is there profit if you consume what you take?

                Edit: and don’t get me started on the violence used in our own market systems. Thankfully Mushrooms learned long ago to eat the rich, because “surplus profit” are just resources that aren’t being used.

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                    Because consuming more than what you can use or need is not a competitive advantage. The mushroom that trades that surplus instead of wastefully consuming it will have a more resilient support structure. It’s a different perspective where you view the fitness of an individual in regards to how well it embeds itself in the system by making itself useful to others, not by how well it can “extract profit” from its surroundings (like a cancer or obesity).

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          Where in that response did you see the word capitalism. Economics exist outside of your agenda/baggage.

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            “market place” is a concept of competition in contrast to Kropotkin’s concept of mutual aid