Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What …
Technically, we no longer allow slavery. But for agribusiness to maintain its current profits while selling food so cheap, somebody still has to harvest the crop for meager wages. Somebody who's not in a position to complain.
— Multispecies Cities by Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Taiyo Fujii, Shweta Taneja (Page 126)