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Fungi won’t trade if the tree is not giving enough nutrients. So while they don’t trade for profit they sure as hell aren’t engaging in charity.
Mutual aid, in other words.
So in dum dum terms the trees are keeping the fungus as a pet?
More like two people sharing resources to reproduce more effectively while having a gun pointed towards each other at all times