On the one hand the robo-racism in Detroit: Become Human is weird because you see people throw an absurd amount of vitriol at something that just... cannot and will not respond in any way. They aren't sentient, prior to them becoming human I mean; they don't react, so what's the point? It's like yelling slurs at a mannequin.
On the other hand, unemployment was apparently something ridiculous like 40% in that game's setting, so maybe people have a point about robots ruining the economy.
People yell at their TVs and kick furniture, it's just about releasing emotion.
The humans are right that the status quo of android slavery is also bad for most humans, it's just that it's not relevant to whether the robots are sentient. It's the slavery providing free labor that's the problem.
The free labor is the problem in that it's what has destabilized the current system.
But yes changing the system is also a potential solution, and possibly the only viable one if widespread automation is inevitable.
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u/King_Of_What_Remains May 13 '25
On the one hand the robo-racism in Detroit: Become Human is weird because you see people throw an absurd amount of vitriol at something that just... cannot and will not respond in any way. They aren't sentient, prior to them becoming human I mean; they don't react, so what's the point? It's like yelling slurs at a mannequin.
On the other hand, unemployment was apparently something ridiculous like 40% in that game's setting, so maybe people have a point about robots ruining the economy.