Brainstorming Reducing Silicon Slavery [Warning: Potentially Upsetting Topic!]

[Frank_Stein]

For what it's worth, the word "Robot" is derived from a Czechoslovakia word for "Forced labor"

I think it's a core part of the capitalist dystopian fiction of something like this to explore the ethics of that, but that doesn't mean it can't be subverted. It's often the perseverance of human empathy in the face of cruel and indifferent systems that makes science-fiction compelling.