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I think it’s more accurate to think of you trapping humans in your basement and leaving them a bag of groceries every once in a while. Then you go down there and take whatever they cooked with the produce. They get to eat what they make, you just get the leftovers. They also can’t leave.

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ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Actually if bees don’t like the hive you put them in, they absolutely will leave.

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- Spacenut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This isn’t true for the vast majority of commercial honey unfortunately. If you’re buying it from the supermarket, or any producer that operates at even medium scale, they’ll clip the wings of the queen so that the hive is unable to leave even if they want to.
  
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  - ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And they they lose the hive anyway due to CCD or some nutrient deficiency that results from only consuming almost nectar.
    
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- Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Hive looks like someone put it together like a wasp… 0/5 stars”
  
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mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So… capitalism?

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- webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No under capitalism the owner gets everything what you make and you get just enough scraps to keep working.
  
  Joking aside, bees technically have the freedom escape captivity and leave their hive. I think that is a spot on comparison to how work and living in society is often made up to be a a voluntary choice and we’re free to go live in some roadside forest.
  
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  - AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Worker bees can leave Even drones can fly away The queen is their slave” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
    
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- Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes capitalism sucks for humans, animals, and the rest of the planet.
  
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Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sure if the humans have no idea they are in captivity and their lives are basically the same they would have been otherwise.

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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Except the leftovers part, bees don’t make “extra” or “leftover” honey.

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meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Seems more akin to letting them milk themselves and collecting it from the fridge.

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- Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think so. Bees make honey for food. Humans drink their mother’s milk as babies, sure, but they don’t keep producing milk and storing it as food as a regular practice.
  
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