Call me a lib for shilling Current Affairs, but they recently had a good article about ants.
The other thing missing from this analysis is that the excess capacity means the ant colony can better survive shocks. If, say, a pandemic disease wipes out a chunk of the population or makes them less able to work, the others can pick up the slack. They're not lazy, they're insurance.
Meanwhile, capitalism would have us shave any excess capacity down to nothing, in the name of "efficiency", and we can see how well that works in terms of ICU beds or PPE.
Call me a lib for shilling Current Affairs, but they recently had a good article about ants.
The other thing missing from this analysis is that the excess capacity means the ant colony can better survive shocks. If, say, a pandemic disease wipes out a chunk of the population or makes them less able to work, the others can pick up the slack. They're not lazy, they're insurance.
Meanwhile, capitalism would have us shave any excess capacity down to nothing, in the name of "efficiency", and we can see how well that works in terms of ICU beds or PPE.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727023679459950665/781035227349778442/the_socialist_ant.pdf