>>I am greatly bothered by the degree to which modern humans emulate robots,...<<

Well, at least she was polite about being thrown off-script.

That was the role where half the work I did was either teaching people scripts or working around scripts that didnt fit.

>>So problems don't get solved, and folks generally learn that asking for help is often pointless.<<

In my case "I gave up on trying to fix this six months back, you try thinking of solutions. And then I'll refuse any I've already tried, / don't think will work."

>>Of course, with racism and sexism, those are easily proven with facts.<<

Then you get people who think such a system is already in place, so, say racial prison disparities or the gender wage gap are because of individuals making bad choices (their argument not mine), not a slightly biased system with cumulative effects.