Ecological succession + Fungus underpins forests and everything!

Pic re-mixed from: "Fungal banking"
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/06/20/occasional-paper-fungal-banking/

#Planet = 1st #Economy
#Fungus #Fungal #Economics
#Organic #Banking #dynamics

Comments from page:

Gareth Richard Samuel Wilson

That (part below) reminds me of Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters, where even after an entire city has been taken over by mind-controlling parasites, parasitised businessmen still have to go to parasitised bankers to get business loans.

from original post:
“Depending on your point of view, you could say this all shows that banks and finance — in the very broadest sense — are not only natural but hardwired into life; something very similar has been going on, silently but profoundly, for millions of years, and it has shaped the world around us.”

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Doug M. (original poster)
" And, really, you could rearrange these facts to tell a more lefty, socialist kind of story: the trees in the forest cooperating, pooling their resources to achieve common goals. I didn’t mention it in the article (it was getting long enough already), but there’s evidence that trees may use the network for something that looks like altruism — as in, trees may divert resources to support trees that are injured or sick. So it’s not all tooth-and-claw. "

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Janis:
I’ve been at odds a long time with Adam Smith. Yes, our beastly nature has capitalism built in, and it’s worked for crude propagation. We aren’t #fungi, or #trees. We have this fancy little knob on the top of us that’s supposed to have a function.

Those seeding trees are mothers, something fringe capitalist literature is only now addressing. Spore drive, indeed.