About 10,000 years ago a species of plant, a type of grass, evolved a peculiar adaptation.
It evolved a unique parasitic trait. It managed to convince a big brained great ape species, that had been living comfortably and free for hundreds of thousands of years to enslave itself to the grass. This parasitic enslavement was so complete that if the grass wanted to claim a field for is own, the grass was able to force it's enslaved ape to labor hours in the hot sun to clear huge fields of every single stone so that the grass could spread unimpeded for miles. Further, the ape would pull up every single indigenous plant in that fields so that only that grass would grow. Further still, the ape would develope complicated and labor intensive anti-pest techniques so the grass was protected at all costs. If the grass needed water, it forced the ape to dig miles and miles of irrigation canals or even lug buckets of water themselves to provide the grass with water. The ape would even enslave other species of animals to them to work the fields on behalf of the grass.
After ten thousand years of parasitic co-evolution and the two species can no longer survive without each other at all. The ape must work endless hours to provide itself with food and the grass has lost all of its own natural adaptations to even spread it's own seeds without the ape.
But the grass would not stop it's greed (because it's a grass, this is what grasses do). It demanded the ape develop new techniques to consume more and more land. So the ape, being enslaved to the grass, developed machines that burned fossil fuels to cultivate more land than ever before. The grass forced the apes to develope new chemical fertilizers to feed the grass' greed at the expense of all the other ecosystems.
The ape would even developed and instituted complete governments for itself for the sole purpose of ensuring that the grass could be appeased to it's maximum extent.
The parasitic grass was able to do this by evolving an ability to “trick” the ape into believing that if it worked tirelessly to support the grass then it would gain endless wealth, security and leisure.
Who domesticated who?
(Yes this is a metaphor. Have a good Sunday.)