What Are Bacteria Doing?

Bacteria can digest tree bark by squirting stuff at that chops it up and makes it digestible to them. When a bacterium releases an exo enzymeyou know, it's just a protein, a tiny protein. It never gets its own back. But if everybody does it together, i have a chance of getting your enzime, and you have a chances of get mine. And ultimately, we, the community succeeds. There's all kinds of public goods in biology. And when the community tries to use those collectively, they then the community profits.