I'm not sure it doesn't change much, on a 50 year timeline maybe. But people were eating other humans and slaving away (making slaves of others that is) not too long ago, rape and pillage was acceptable, societies sacrificed children, it's changed quite a bit in 30 generations. Those past societies were all quite materially successful as well when you look at today's measure of"GDP" comparatively.

What will it look like in another 30 generations? It's honestly a fascinating question but I have no answer of course.

Slaves were a solution to two problems: 1) the lack of industrial automation; 2) winning wars being better served by enslavement than death.

Humans are a territorial kind of ape that is always pushing to expand, principally for security and then for prosperity. The industrial revolution enabled such expansion to most efficiently without enslavement. Nothing, morally, changed. No one has ever really thought such expansion morally good -- only that it is better that we survive/prosper than die off. And in the end, our shared prosperity usually leads -- when taken to the fullest extent -- in a general empire of prosperity for all. Dominion, in the end, aims towards to more prosperity for more people.

As for ritual human sacrifice -- we still engage in such behaviours, which are in general called "scapegoating". Now located on social media. These behaviours allow for group cohesion by purging dissenters from the group, related again to our nature above.

For western culture, the ritual physical sacrifice of human life roughly ended in the days of the OT. But it continued across the world up until today, where there are still societies with large populations engaged in it. Principally where there is an undeveloped justice system.

It's doubtful many think ritual human sacrifice, of any kind, is moral. Rather they think it necessary for group cohesion -- and better our group is cohesive, dominate, and then prosper.

The material logic of prosperity and security is domination, and insofar as material circumstances require violent domination, so they require it. And require it they often do.

People are still slaving and raping, and some people would clearly like to do more of it. Child sacrifice still happens in more abstract forms. Same with human sacrifice, arguably.

We've never solved the fundamental problem, which is that there are two kinds of human. One is oriented towards peace, cooperation, and mutual aid, the other is sociopthaic/narcissistic and murderously selfish.

These two modes interact through history.

Traditionally the second kind has the biggest impact, because they're oriented towards violence and domination - good for short-term goals of personal indulgence, ambition, and expansion, but catastrophically destructive in the longer term.

On this cycle the second kind has literally started to destroy the entire planetary ecosystem. It's not obvious there's going to be another human cycle after this.