Besides, people seem more than happy to ignore the suffering of fellow humans, even as they profit from it. There would be no cheap electronics without great human suffering in the mining industry, for a quick example.
You think?
There's already real bad ‘social ruptures’ between people who disagree on the sentience of the actual primates they are electing to leadership positions.
As can be seen, it's getting worse, not better.
And yes we do. It’s very easy to do that because we don’t talk with them. We don’t have to see what they live through and how they feel about it. If every electronic device came with an hour or two of voice/video call with even one of the people who slaved away in the factory to build it, that might change.