I hate to beat up on this because I agree with the spirit of it. But I think this is a little too cliche for my taste: > that requires recognizing the humanity

I hate to beat up on this because I agree with the spirit of it. But I think this is a little too cliche for my taste: > that requires recognizing the humanity of 99.9% of people I will go as far as to say there was never a time in history when people got rights because some other group “recognized the humanity in them” or something. No, it was through necessity. The plague in Europe caused a shortage of workers and brought an end to feudalism. Unions got us Saturdays off through collective action. The post-war boom and middle class prosperity happened because employers had no other options. Software engineering was lucrative because there was a shortage of supply. Even if there is some future where robots do chores, that’ll only leave time for more work, not poetry writing time, unless there is a fundamental change in how the economy is structured, like I outlined above.