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Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by smt88 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @02:11PM (#42425285)
With the context that "payment" is a way to make labor fungible and labor is expenditure of calories, every creature has to pay to live.

Humans probably spend fewer calories on survival (with better results) and more calories on pleasure than any other species. This is partly thanks to society.

So humans probably "pay" the least of any species just to exist.

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Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by aziaziazi on Monday December 16, 2024 @12:02AM (#42428133)
> more calories on pleasure than any other species

That’s true we aren’t cheap on the pleasure calories, on the other hands most mammals seems to include pleasure in hunting or building their shelter or other activities. Think to dolphins, Wolfe, or rabbits. We humans have created many pleasant activities to forget our workday -which is not a pleasure for most-, while the lion enjoy its nap before an exiting hunt tonight with fellows.

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