The total ant mass of the world is larger than the total human mass on the planet.

And it's higher by a whole lot.

Ants are therefore the most successful species on the planet.

Ants count as the winner of the evolutionary arms race as long as humans don't manage to permanently settle another planet.

Be man:

Go through multiple population booms.

Go through exponential technological growth.

Go through an intelligence explosion as human societies become ever more efficient and all humans gain further education over time.

Have the line of human development stack up vertically that's how fast things are going.

The ants are still ahead of you and winning the evolutionary arms race.

Be ant:

Haven't changed shit since 140 MYA

Have watched countless epochs of life come and go. Ants are still here, and remain so in large numbers.

Are seeing a population boom in current year while most species on the planet are going extinct.

Every few years scientists find out they were off by a few trillion to quadrillion as to how many ants are really out there.

Most successful variants are warriors ( Fire ants ), wood workers ( Carpenter ants ), and farmers ( Argentine ants ).

New larger empires still being discovered in current century.