The desires of a chicken are to eat and make more chickens.
The desires of a human are more complex. For this example we don't need to list out what they are.
So let's say you are offered the opportunity to go to space as in your scenario. And your desires are met. But at the age of 40 you are painlessly killed and eaten. And you are assured of having lots of children.
What do you think? Would some people agree to this?
And to make the example more complete, the alternative is not a comfortable life on Earth, but rather war where lots of people are killed young and the rest have very difficult paintful lives of constant fear.
I’m not sure chicken desires are quite that simple, nor that many humans would accept your deal. But even if we take all of that at face value: would you describe the result as “successful”?
I'm not sure what the goal of the chicken is except maybe to make more chickens, and if that's the goal then yes chickens were successful.
If your goal as a human is to explore and pass on your knowledge to your children, then yes, that could be considered as successful as well.
Also, it depends in large part on if your goals are personal, or generational. If personal then you could argue both ways. But if generational then yes definitely a success.
I would consider chickens held in captivity comparible to humans held in captivity. Holding a human in captivity is forcing someone else's will on that person and not giving them the opportunity to be free. I call that slavery.
You need to breed out intelligence in humans. Because that comes with boredom etc. Its also why we're not farming any intelligent animals. Hunting them ie dolphins, etc doesn't count because the process cannot be industrialised unless they can be farmed.
The world listens to this speech and learns:
- The UFO craze of the mid 20th century was real. Aliens really were abducting and probing humans.
- Their evaluation established that we are not clever or strong enough to be useful, but we are delicious and cheap to feed.
- A fleet of transports will soon arrive to take humans throughout the galaxy to be raised as food.
- The technological gap between us is incomprehensibly vast, so there is no possibility of resistance.
This is the story of how humanity became successful.