This post and these reactions brought a different song to mind:
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They just define “people” different
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I consider these assholes less human life than my daily bowel movement.
I propose we flush them into the sea, same as that, after treatment with chemicals, of course. Don’t want their inherent toxicity polluting the marine life.
Seriously, can we just flush these sacks of human waste into the sea in November? All of them, their friends, extended families, the people that taught them, into the sea?
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The cattle are ready for slaughter”
Welcome to the 21st century economic plantation! Same as it ever was. And as always, many are still sleepwalking thru life – they even spout owner-friendly talking points!
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I’m happy to see a Trump advisor get made fun of for failing public communications 101, but I hope no-one is getting seriously upset about the use of a phrase I first heard in my grade 11 economics class some 40 years ago.
Pictures of guillotines with “seriously” underneath for carelessly using standard terminology for the field seems just a wee bit of overreaction.
And yes, Piketty (or his co-author) uses the same term in his paper here: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/PikettyZucman2013WP.pdf
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They’ll be reclosed by August. No one ever learns.
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“Human capital” is slaves. We’re capital if we are owned.
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The fact that your grade 11 economics class treated workers as serfs or slaves does not mean it is right to do so. That attitude among capitalists has led to the current U.S. economy, which is failing the workers who produce the country’s wealth. Workers who are seen as serfs, slaves, or human capital stock don’t get treated like the valuable part of the economy they are.
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“But, sir, I’m alive!”
“OK, human capital live-stock then.”
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Sadly, no. I can sympathise, but that would mean we have become them, and they have won. I think the solution is to recognise that certain minority grabs and hoards riches and power, and that a government acting for the general good should counteract this. They can do this by enforcing taxes, by avoiding powerful monopolies, and by seeing that the poor and disadvantaged have options and so cannot be driven like this. This is what socialism should be. Unfortunately, the struggle is always seen as revolution, purge, and vengeance; and I suspect FaceBook and Cambridge Analytics are keeping it so.
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Or, “Shazoo”, as we say over here in Europe.
Hasn’t Kevin Hassett heard the old folk saying, “Sell a man a fish, and he can feed himself for a day; set a man on fire, and you can’t sell him any more fish”?
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And in this timeline a company led by Cyberman spawns a Cybertruck.
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Two tracks in sequence on Alice Donut’s “Mule” come to mind too; J-Train Downtown: A nest of Murder and Cow’s Placenta to Armageddon.
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Thanks for the clarification. However, does this simply mean that the problem is systemic rather than personal to Kevin Hassett?
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Of course this is a general systemic term for “employees.” That doesn’t excuse it. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get pissed off about it. There’s a fuck ton of OTHER terms this wet noodle could have chosen. “Our workers,” for one. “Americans,” for another. But he went straight to euphemisms 101 because corporations and larger businesses don’t think of you as people and never have and never will. They think of you as a money sink that costs them more than any other aspect of business and is a necessary evil. They’d be thrilled to get rid of their workers if they could.
Human capital stock is not a shocking term. The system that creates people who use such terms and think its totes okay is what’s shocking and disgusting and needs to be dismantled.
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Considering modern farming practices, the analogy is adequate in my opinion. I’ve recently talked to local expert on dairy cows, and daily yield from a single cow can be as high as 40 liters, while traditionally it was about 8 liters. Everything is so highly optimized that it’s nearly a science, and cow’s health is ruined in about 3 years of milking (so about 5 years of lifetime instead of 15).
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The slimy nasty smirk as he says it! The evil condescending prick.
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