Peter T. talked about the environment and how with all of the crap living in us we are the environment for many creatures.

But are we microbes in larger creatures? I am often struck by the similarities between human institutions a biological life.

Corporations consuming resources and shitting out pollution and products. People think they are in control but the nature of the beast leaves little free choice. Corporations gain an advantage grow and die. Sometimes scavengers pick their bones, sometimes they are swallowed whole. Sometimes invasive species with evolutionary advantages upset local ecologies.

Toyota and Honda, BMW and Mercedes, sleeker, faster able to better breed new product are slowly starving the big three just as the Dingo displaced Australian pouched predators.

As corporations outsource their lifesblood more and more as supply chains shrink and fewer and fewer people do a larger share of the work, I wonder, how long before the owners of capital consider us the parasites?