the exceptional treatment that humans claim for themselves has to do with other things, not sentience. humans fulfill an important role in nature, because we do work that nobody else could do. with human's effort it's possible to make life multi-planetary which would not be possible otherwise. so the plants kinda should pay us for the service that we do for them.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

plants should pay us on the off chance we pull our collective heads out of our asses to stop committing global ecocide and switch to benevolent stewarship of life itself instead some day? youll be pleased to learn the value of plants' lives is paid out in extracted value and we compensate them by basically encouraging the plants to be grateful for the exposure.