What if your people developes an evolutionary strategy that allows them to view others as non-humans, as livestock in fact, by ritalistic selfdeception.
That's unrealistic:
Humans are a social species, unless drastic change occur. There will never be a "evolutionary stragety" that makes them view others as none human. The only strategy that makes it possible is through rhetoric and getting society to agree with that rhetoric and dehumanizing them.
Capitalism is a recent invention, this much older.
It is not a recent invention. It's just an evolution of feudalism, fedualism 2.0. We ditched lords and serf titles, and went to CEO, manager, and worker. It is still a top down system. The workers don't get to pick their boss in late stage capitalism. It is the CEO, who chooses the managers, in which the managers themselves choose more managers, and those managers pick workers.
And whatever is dished at the workers, they have to just deal with it, or be fired. Right to work states amright?
Instead of getting housing via a knight or lord, doing everything they ask as the serf. The peasants now use a thing to represent power,only obtained from those with a lot of that represented power, to temporarily own land by those lords or different ones.
Structurally, nothing much has changed. The peasants are still poor, not in any condition to vouch themselves, while the lords get to change everything at their whim.
Sounds like our company hell life doesn't it? There's no such thing as crony capitalism. If it makes profit, capitalism will do it. There's no sense of morals with it. If the merchants then realized it would make them money, they will do so. Even if it means enslaving others, and selling them off. Why wouldn't they do it now? Sure we banned it via a government. But scam call centers are illegal, and still exist, now don't they?
No this is not a simple answer at all, money is a complex abstraction. What is more simple is evolutionary intrest.
Umm, no It's a pretty simple answer. I only explained obivious pretext. People want money because system demands, it, so people make more money. That's more simple than "evolutionary interest" whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Which by the looks of it, is something used to explain away the crime that was racism and slavery.
Being driven by materialism is not sufficient to take power.
No, but it's not just material that you get from money now is it? It's power. Power is money.
Lobbying, sending money to politician campaigns. Those aren't exactly material, but the actions afterwords, do effect it material circumstances. Again, capitalism itself puts all it's power into money. Those with more money are able to extract more money. It cannot come out of nowhere, so it has to come at the cost of majority of people.
. Only actors that have higher spirits can realize projects of such a scale.
No, It's if we switched branches from the bs we've been fed for the last 30 years. Trickle down economics, just vote, grind culture. All of it. Is just a bs excuse to treat humans as shit, by those who already have money, and thus power.