Thinking about platforms as Amazon, Uber or Facebook I'm wondering if we can find similar dynamics in nature.<p>Parasites feed on top of bigger organisms but nothing comes to mind about organisms which create or facilitate and ecosystem and then control it and feed on it.<p>It would be a powerful analogy.<p>Thanks!
The word you're looking for is 'Cultivation.'<p>You've basically described farming and ranching. Plenty of analogies there, though many of them have already been used.