why do viruses try to kill the thing keeping them alive?
In: Biology
They see their host organism as an infinite pool of resource. Their built in reproduction mechanism exploit those resource as much and as fast as possible. Exponential growth is a metric of success.
Short sighed consumerism.
Until it’s too late.
Totally unrelated, Jean-Baptiste Say, one of the fathers of modern economics, in [1828](https://www.manageris.com/synopsis-evolving-towards-circular-economy-20682.html): “Natural resources are infinite because, if they weren’t, we would not obtain them freely. Since they cannot be multiplied, nor exhausted, they cannot be the object of economic sciences.”
It remains to be proven that humans are smarter than viruses.
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