Nah I disagree. They don’t care about anything specific so long as the population of sheep is robust. They need to shear at their leisure.
They don’t actually care what the sheep do, who the sheep fuck or who fucks the sheep. They are just sheep. There isn’t a moral component at all. It’s a sham to get the sheep signed on.
Capitalists see themselves as a different species.
And yes I understand that I am a sheep.
Off the top of my head Andre Norton is completely overlooked in this thread. Like… what?
Mercedes lackey.
Cj Cherryh.
Katherine Kurtz.