Is it actually the plant itself that's the issue, or all the other organisms that live in the soil? Though you could ask similar questions about humans, human society and the human gut biome, I suppose.
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It might be the plant. It seems to me that it grows in mineral poor soil usually. Thus it takes any of it it can get. If it is now in rich soil it just keeps stocking it up because its "instinct" tells it that it must. So it gets too much and dies.
There's not just one single answer to this, each type of plant that "can't live in rich soil" has its own story so to speak.
One common theme is that these plants tend to be more efficient at collecting specific, necessary nutrients that are otherwise limited/lacking in their environment, and because they'd never naturally be exposed to large amounts of those nutrients, they've lost some or all of their ability to regulate uptake and/or to expel excesses from their tissues in comparison to other types of plants not adapted to those specific conditions.
So, when introduced to artificially high levels of these nutrients, they basically absorb the nutrient(s) until it reaches toxic/deadly levels, and then the plants lack the ability to get rid of the excess since there was never a need for such a mechanism when they evolved in their nutrient poor niche. It can lead to issues where the plants can't maintain osmotic balance or nutrient / mineral antagonism leads to the plant being unable to absorb or make use of other vital nutrients because one of them is so out of balance.
Maybe an analogue to the plant would be like diabetic ketoacidosis, but just more acute than in humans.
I'm not overweight, I'm prepared for the gathering storm.
Got an air plant one time because it "thrives on neglect". Still killed it. Tried again and neglected it a bit less. Still died.
The story of all my plants. 🙄
The kind that is supposed to be an animal, but has successfully separated itself from nature through technology. Modern humans are plagued with anxiety and negativity bias, because those things kept our ancestors alive long enough to reproduce. The happy, anxiety-free people were careless and died before they could reproduce.
I assumed it will be about wealth and not actually nutrients.