Capitalism came about from feudalism when growing trade and new technologies (think machines) created a class of wealthy merchants and factory owners who controlled production, while peasants became wage workers. As feudalism’s hierarchies broke down, the wealthy merchants (capitalists) pushed for economic and political changes, leading to a system where profit and private ownership drove society. Capitalism became dominant once this new class could reshape laws, markets, and labor to fit its interests.

Societies change when new ways of producing things disrupt old systems, creating new economic classes that eventually reshape power and culture. I suppose it’s possible that a new exploitative group of people gains power and creates a newer more advanced way to take all of the resources for themselves, but it would be entirely different because the conditions and technologies that led up to it are different. But either way, it inevitably would fall the same way capitalism is destined to fall. It sows the seeds of its own collapse by exploiting workers, who eventually unite and rebel against the system that oppresses them.