Just because a human is doing a repetitive job it does not justify having them urinate in bottles and defecating in bags at their stations to reduce the crucial time they take away from their primary job function.

Chefs do “robotic jobs” repeatedly creating the same end product. Would you be comfortable if the person who prepared your Michelin course dinner was forced to urinate in a bottle while they did it? Why are we ok with treating human beings like this, simply because we do not romanticize the task of sorting and moving boxes.

Even if so, they still deserve to be treated like people.

Yes, treated like people that can be replaced by robots.

We all can eventually be replaced and should be careful what precedents we establish now. “First they came for the warehouse workers...”

It didn't happen with industrial revolution, I doubt it will happen now. Robots will not replace plumbers, waiters, teachers, barbers - at least not in the nearest future.

Clearly one of us has more faith in automation.

More accurately "first they came for the weavers."

Well, the weavers did fight back on their own behalf.

I think they are.

Modern American safety net is far from perfect, but it does a pretty good job making sure people don't die from hunger not freeze to death.

That's an astonishingly low bar.

Low bar is not always wrong.