> How is this different from other times in history?
The push for human fungibility on the same level as monetary fungibility is a much more recent trend, perhaps only setting aside slave societies.
The push for human fungibility on the same level as monetary fungibility is a much more recent trend, perhaps only setting aside slave societies.
If you mean "people having less agency in the workplace than 50 years ago in European/ex-European colonial countries" - sure, I buy it as a recent trend.
If you mean people in power treating other humans like farm animals or worse - this is not new at all and has been going on in various, far more brutal ways for as long as we have recorded history.