> Hard miss. GP is right, and your assumptions say more about you than about me. :^)

No. If that's the case, your statement was unclear: since you didn't specify who else thinks those people were cattle, the implication is that you think it. Especially since you prefaced your statement with "I’d argue."

And the interpretation...

> It seems more like they're implying it's those at the top think that about other people.

...beggars belief. What indication has "the top" given to show they have that kind of foresight and control? The closest is the AI-bros advocacy of UBI, which (for the record) has gone nowhere.

I was half a mind to point that out in my original comment, but didn't get around to it.