@bonifartius @mangeurdenuage I liked this page of writing, the end of this story rounded off nicely as I wanted with "Depending on your point of view" that it might be...

... #bank style lending / " #banking " by fungi
...or hard-wired in all the players
...or merely for millions of years, shaped the world around us
...or even might get taken over by something else bigger

My added version may be:
...the sacrifice towards keeping the whole thing running for some hope or lack of ability to kill itself ( #Ants can if feel they are infected but I guess that is a physical illness)... while #evolution somehow has perfected / is perfecting all the roles perhaps so humans are very much like mushrooms or #fungi in a another form / version... but there goes perspective again... running wild to the forest!

Intriguing... as a free #mushroom myself 🍄 🍄

P.S
"Mycorrhiza" always a pain to write and even remember but will remember it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

"A mycorrhiza is a #symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant. The term #mycorrhiza refers to the role of the #fungus in the plant's rhizosphere, its root system. #Mycorrhizae play important roles in plant nutrition, soil biology, and soil chemistry.

Any of various slender filaments that function as #roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc

+ Rhizome Noun
1. A horizontal #plant #stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

P.P.S Confusing page title / thumbnail title
Oh yeah almost didn't click link because of the auto-generated title mentioning "Occasional paper" which wasn't page of the page really... so at least would have been clearer as "Fungal banking" as the start of title and then "Occasional paper:" though I understand now what it might mean but at first didn't go together at all and confusing.
"(Occasional paper)" as brackets for example would make it less looking like it's part of article's text and some kind of category or filing description.