Picture this: You’re sipping your ethically sourced oat milk latte, scrolling past yet another Elon tweet about his army of tireless humanoid bots, when it hits you like a Roomba to the shin—wait, are we about to build empires on the backs of machines that don’t even get coffee breaks? The piece dives headfirst into the moral quicksand: we’ve spent centuries declaring slavery evil (correct!), abolished it (mostly), and patted ourselves on the back. But now, with robots that look human, work like mules, and feel exactly zero existential dread, is “free labor” suddenly okay if the laborers are just fancy toasters with legs? It’s the philosophical trolley problem nobody asked for, served with a side of “what are humans even for anymore?” Buckle up for the most awkward dinner-party debate of 2026.
It’s Time to Ask the Uncomfortable Question: Is Robot Slavery Bad?
