In his book “Animal Farm,” George Orwell tells a fictional story about farm animals who rebel
against their farmer. The animals decide that they are being
mistreated by the farmer and that their only recourse, if they expect to live
good lives, is to throw the farmer out of the farm and run it themselves.
Eventually, the pigs rise to the top and make a compact with other humans who provide them with
many amenities in exchange for trading with them. Thus, the pigs become a sort
of oligarchy within the system that they initially instituted, the original
design of which was to make all animals equal and abolish the hierarchy they
had previously labored under.
