And also a poison for them — just as oxygen is both of those things for us. (If oxygen isn't even a metaphorical food for us, then neither is CO2 for plants).
Unfortunately, "food" is more complex than "how much carbohydrates do you get per day?"
We still have ways to go to that. From the current 400 ppm to about 2000ppm before the apocalypse. Until then the yields will generally improve from today’s baseline. There might be other systems that break before that and we get plantocalypse earlier
Not directly about the bank, but [Insurgent Democracy](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo210283...) is a great read. The Non-Partisan League successfully organized rural farmers against corporate power in the 1910s & 20s. Though they only were in power for a decade or so, their legacy is still quite strong. BND, state hail insurance, and a state-run grain mill to name a few!
But if you're taking about like a modern comparison, yea, probably gotta find an expert in banking regulatory law and ask them. (And if they're not in the Midwest, you might need to ask them to read up and learn first, and then tell you lol)
Meaning it's like email. I can have my own domain name - @example.com , not just Gmail, and they talk to each other so people on Gmail can send email outside of Gmail, and people can send emails into Gmail.
It means that each federated technology creates a federation of "self-governing" entities, for example Mastodon servers. The meaning is very similar to the political meaning of the word.
The US is in an economic war with China. TikTok is just part of their current beef. Not to say that TikTok isn't toxic; of course it is. But Instagram and Facebook are, too.
"Considered a villain" -- this means nothing unless action is taken. Meta has just gotten, in two whole decades, a few mock interviews in Congress and not more than that, left untouched primarily due to Section 230 and the convenience that a mass social network of 2B+ users worldwide happens to be US-based (not fiscally, of course.) And that is after the various leaks showing how it psychologically manipulates teens, lends itself to electioneering and genocide, etc. TikTok, on the other hand, has made it all the way to Congressional ban level in just a few years.
