" The jungle or the prairie, parrots or bobolinks—none of them ever has the opportunity to argue its own value as being, as things that deserve respect simply because they are. This reveals a grave spiritual flaw in their masters: the governors, developers, and agribusiness kings of the world. The ruling order has no moral right to rule because it makes its daily purpose the defeat of the future. The accountant’s logic that concludes that our “interest” is in “profit” assures a future defined by cruelty, but in the long run it will be understood as self-defeat. National "

― Curtis White , We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data