How did the Anthropomorphic world come to be?
In the late 21st Century, a scientist postulated a question for economist. Economists would argue time and time again that Capitalism was the best system because at the end of the day, everybody benefits from it.
But he began to wonder, “what if every animal was sentient? What would win, Communism or Capitalism?”
At first glance, it might not seem like adding in other species would create an issue, but over time the scientist had calculated that it could actually change all of reality with it.
For example, what would happen if the ruling class became all people from the Pig Race? Or the Rat Race? Would humans still feel the draw of Capitalism knowing that they could be completely cut out of the system entirely and replaced with another species? Would they instead yearn for a system that guaranteed their safety regardless of who was in charge?
As species became more and more intelligent through hyper-focused breeding and gene-splicing programs, the question became heated first with the Pig and Chicken races.
“Why is it okay that you humans are allowed to sell our young and our siblings into slavery? You’ve spent millennia forcing them into slavery where for generation after generation, you’ve murdered from the oldest to the youngest and forced them to copulate with whatever sire you deemed.”
The Pig and Chicken races were smart though when they started to march on Washington with these questions.
They couldn’t stop humans from eating them, they thought the issue would be to ingrained in culture. They had become a staple in society and dishes across the world. With every species including insects becoming slowly more intelligent, how could anything be eaten without a price tag attached to it from another species?
New races like the Bird Tribunal, representing the major predatory birds, lacked the empathy humans felt when it came towards “Prey Races.” They applauded humans efforts in food production and marvelled at their ability to massacre Prey Species in masse. Carnivore species like these ensured that Meat Production couldn’t be halted entirely.
Soon enough though these Prey Animal races became the leaders of the Ranching community due to overwhelming pressure from the public towards the government to re-write some of these wrongs. Some Prey Species would create wonderful areas for their siblings to live their lives in for a few easy years before they would be humanely euthanized by one of their own. Others became crueler than humans could because they were more easily able to avoid Human Regulations amongst their own races for greater profits than what was previously achieved.
This hit the human farming and ranching communities first the hardest. Without being able to sell other animals, how could they become a major player in the space again? Some partnered with the other races, others sold their businesses, and others yet ignored the requests of the animal species and held their ground on “What’s mine is mine.”
Society slowly started to shift over time with this issue that start with one scientist asking, “if all animals were intelligent, what would win, Communism or Capitalism?”
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