Agree, cars are also highly specialized machines that essentially do 1 thing, and have a globally maintained infrastructure designed to facilitate their use.
Comparing cars to autonomous robots... notice how we cant even get self-driving cars to work?
This is also a bit... sheltered?
9 months of labor is an exaggeration. Outside of like the top 3 most generous countries, most places dont even come close to offering 9 months of maternity leave, which is expected to stretch partially after childbirth as well.
In less entitled times and places, women are expected to perform some sort of labor pretty much right up until the point where they give birth, and then keep going pretty much right after. Remember that even the most encumbered pregnant woman can still do valuable non-strenuous work with their hands.
15 years of training? Phew thats a whopper. I mean firstly, if you want to be naive about it in modern developed countries we only offer that much education because we want to develop a highly skilled and highly flexible workforce, including a good amount of fluff that can only be considered useful for "citizenship", ie participating in a Democracy.
If you have lower and probably more accurate estimations of modern educational practices, we have 15 years of baby-sitting paid by the state.
In terms of less entitled times and places; kids work. If they cant do the highly strenuous stuff, insert previous comments about their ability to do tasks with their hands, or watching animals or w/e.
In terms of slaves, you would never want to train a slave for 15 years, good god no. You want to train a slave to do that slave's task and nothing else. The more skills, knowledge, and ability a slave has; the more agency and bargaining power a slave has. Dependency and a lack of options are the main ways that people are kept as slaves.
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