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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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now I'm sitting here thinking about it, from one perspective, you could consider that particular bee to be a slave to the rest of the bees
Bees don’t have a social hierarchy the way humans do. They aren’t queens or slaves, they are just different roles in the colony that contribute to survival and reproduction in different ways.
that's why it's all about the human perspective. the first person to give it a name lived in a world of kings and queens, but if they'd lived in a world with no kings and queens but the world that had slaves, they might have called it the slave bee. there are infinite iterations, hence my question