We have always governed power by striking a bargain. When we let a few hands hold something everyone depends on, the water, the grid, the rail line, we have asked something of them in return... These companies have taken our human data and built their systems from us. I do not see yet what they have given back... These are the questions, and the answers are owed by us, not to us.

Edition 020 pivots from the book's analysis of systems to the culture underneath them. Pope Leo's AI encyclical named the belief the book has been tracing: A person's value does not depend on what they produce. A culture that cannot grant the full weight of a life to the people its systems are built from has revealed what it was never able to see. The rebuttal worried about fairness to the machine, not the people it discards.