UBI and health care based on sales tax. The rich get richer because the poor work for them to buy their stuff instead of realizing the actual overhead costs of civilization (city-based economics of extraction). The pine tree analogy fails to account for the symbiosis of the tree producing sugars that feed the soil organisms that break down minerals to feed the trees and other organisms. The economics of civilized humans fail because everyone gets engaged in competive extraction without a return flow of value to the sources of life (including the people closest to those sources). The rich are an obvious monoculture, but the problem is the extractive mentality as well as the elite believing too much of their success/growth/'profits'/prophets are useful. Nature sees civilization as an evolutionary trap: an unchanging species in an unchanging environment that doesn't contribute anything to the future of the environment that spawned it.