That leaves questions on long running situations with entrenched class structures or other grossly exploitative systems. It's as likely that the sense of having obeyed the social mores through politeness creates an inertia, obligations fulfilled, we're good people and can leave the system as it is.
I suppose my problem here is I'm talking two issues at once. One, if we did what longtermists assume we will, mere politeness would be wholly inadequate to the crimes we'd have committed. And two, while we haven't, blurring the lines between person and object is just something I don't approve of.