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When have we not been seen as disposable. The common man has been reduced to just a cog in the machine, with the exceptions being our concerted fights for what little protections we have.

The modern person in a developed country seems to me more human than ever.

Think about the pin makers at the beginning of John Adams' "The Wealth of Nations." Atomation of meanieal tasks like these means the pin makers are replaced by educated generalists (at least to some extent) who operate and maintain machines.

This is made possible by people's inherent self-bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqNRUILvHc

This is essentially the idea behind alienation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation