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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (24 children)

Fungi won’t trade if the tree is not giving enough nutrients. So while they don’t trade for profit they sure as hell aren’t engaging in charity.

[–] BluesF 87 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Mutual aid, in other words.

[–] Cicraft 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So in dum dum terms the trees are keeping the fungus as a pet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

More like two people sharing resources to reproduce more effectively while having a gun pointed towards each other at all times

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