A Domineering Intelligent Species

In my story I want to have a sub-class of humans who are very domineering and greedy. They are obviously pro-slavery, and believe in survival of the strongest.

I'm wondering how this mindset would conflict with intelligence. I can't see these kind of humans sitting down and reading, nor engaging in activities that are intellectually stimulating. I think friendships would be sparse and not very strong bonds due to lack of trust and lack of desire to share anything. I also feel intelligent people tend to be more empathetic and less likely to be domineering.

So my question is, how do these serious, angry, domineering humans have fun? Would they instead be more animalistic and actually lack intelligence? If they don't have fun but are also intellgent what is their motivation to be greedy and gain more? Basically how do you reconcile brutal greed with high intelligence?

posted about 9 years ago

Varrick‭

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