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This seems obvious to me. By definition, an ecosystem includes all inputs.

That’s true, but it doesn’t respond to the point I was making.

The comment I replied to was comparing an entire system to a single component within a system.

I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.

An ecosystem contains many species at equilibrium, but the ecosystem itself consumes all available resources.

Similarly, companies within a capitalist system maintain a kind of equilibrium, but the system itself will consume all available resources.

Ironically, life generally has those cancer cell characteristics.

Is there any population of anything that will self govern it’s resource consumption? Or is all life limited by resources and / or predation?