I may be wrong, but I can guarantee I'm not willfully twisting anything! Like any analogy it works differently depending on how you interpret it. As I see it,

I may be wrong, but I can guarantee I'm not willfully twisting anything! Like any analogy it works differently depending on how you interpret it. As I see it, people don't 'live' within the corporation they work for, therefore they are not like the cells. They are better understood as the energy that made the whale tick. 'Decomposers' are helping those resources become re-deployed somewhere else. In the economic end of the analogy, they're not dying, they're getting jobs in another company that is growing, not dead. Just because a company fails, it does not follow that net jobs in the economy need to.