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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: So Much For "We The People" [View all]silverweb
(16,402 posts)10. They've been acclimating us to this for some time.
Remember when companies had "Personnel Departments"? Remember when the name was changed to "Human Resources"? I still hate that term and had the same reaction then as I'm having now. I also believe it was/is very deliberate.
The oligarchs want us to accept being called and self-identify as a "resource." A "capital" resource, it turns out, just like cattle: "human capital stock." We have a dollar value and that's what we mean to them, nothing more and nothing less, just like any livestock, and we are easily disposed of if we aren't sufficiently productive.
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It's kinda catchy "we the human capital stock, in order to form a more perfect union..."
Canoe52
May 2020
#7
It's not often that someone I have never heard of jumps up so many notches on my hate ladder. This
dameatball
May 2020
#9
Shines a bright light on their attitude toward poor, elderly, VA, medically fragile, etc. nt
pazzyanne
May 2020
#13
The basket of despicables. We are past deplorable. We're in mob boss/ robber barron territory now.
Evolve Dammit
May 2020
#12
It's like glimpsing an internal dispatch from the US Nazi plantation's overseers --
ancianita
May 2020
#18
When "human capital stock" likely equals "chattel" of older times with these folks.
MFGsunny
May 2020
#19
"Human stock" was always a corporate term. Racial capitalism was always the foundation of
ancianita
May 2020
#30
It's as if the ghost of Ayn Rand has possessed the entire Trump administration. n/t
Tom Yossarian Joad
May 2020
#34