Created Sunday 01 January 2023
I can't believe I haven't written this already. I am a lazy writer.
DoggersWallkers, Bees, Pickers.
This is the System
It is a human-dominated world. The problem---and now one of our last solutions left---is humans. Want to polinate your individual strawberry flowers? Hire a swarm of Bees.
Pickers pick trash. Yep, that was an early one to evolve....
It cannot be but a caste. Someone has to do the dirty work. Nearly all of it.
But not all parts get the same. In eusocial insects (as I really think I said here already---oh, in Blattids, nevermind) I understand their is a trophic ladder where some---the reproducing & adapting caste; the fruit of the vine---get a ricker social broth than those lower down. An already calorie-rich and nutrient-poor diet has even less of both lower down.
Humans as apex predators