[Ed: corrected Youtube URL screwup. Thanks to ted and akikonomu for pointing it out.]

Co myslíte, jaký dělník je prakticky nejlepší? [...Ale] ten nejlacinější. Ten, který má nejmíň potřeb. Mladý Rossum vynalezl dělníka s nejmenším počtem potřeb. Musel ho zjednodušit. Vyhodil všechno, co neslouží přímo práci. Tím vlastně vyhodil člověka a udělal Robota. Drahá slečno Gloryová, Roboti nejsou lidé. Jsou mechanicky dokonalejší než my, mají úžasnou rozumovou inteligenci, ale nemají duši.Practically speaking, what is the best kind of worker? [...It's] the one that’s the cheapest. The one with the fewest needs. Young Rossum did invent a worker with the smallest number of needs, but to do so he had to simplify him. He chucked everything not directly related to work, and doing that he virtually rejected the human being and created the Robot. My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

- Karel Čapek, “R.U.R”

Thanks to akikonomu who sent in this disturbing Superbowl commercial for today’s Youtube Monday.

I invite you to watch the commercial first before reading a summary of akikonomu’s objections below:
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