


While colonies/ants must incorporate random variation in their innate rules which provides behavioral variation, the benefit to the environment must balance the cost.
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Likewise, saying the laid-off airline captain pilot switches to a new career goes against nature.ģ) The ants live in a harmony with the environment that has evolved by trial and error. So, you are part of the ivory tower colony and I’m from the college drop-out progressed to computer systems engineer and scientist by experience colony, so my messing in econ is objectionable to you, because I should be starting as a student of econ to grad student and then I might become part of the econ colony. So, when economists argue that laying off old workers causes no problems, you expect the worker to go against nature, and start over again, after going from trainee to copilot to pilot, the laid-off pilot just starts over as trainee.Ģ) While ants might be born the same, once they have reached a certain point in life, the are now part of a single colony. Well, here are some lessons economists might take from studying ants, etc.ġ) the role of the ant follows a progression hunter/gatherers probably progressed from working around the camp to being the forager (hunter) to being the patrol (wise sage).
