"HUMAN CAPITAL STOCK?"

[MineralMan]

Do I have an SKU now? My Social Security number? Maybe they'll barcode me for easy scanning.

Are we cattle? Apparently so to the Trump administration...

[Thomas Hurt]

1. He means slaves, but with a modern capitalist spin.

[MineralMan]

2. I know what he means.

Exactly...

[rickford66]

3. Will this get the coverage Biden's cavalier remark did ?

[MineralMan]

4. Not likely.

[peggysue2]

5. Hassett's comment on Human Capital Stock

Is the Grandchild of Human Resources. This is how the corporate world has perceived workers for quite some time. Not as essential team players working towards the same goal, a job well done, a successful enterprise but as resources to tap, drain, kick to the curb when depleted.

Hassett's mistake is he framed the idea in even starker terms: human capital stock. You can almost hear the mooing.

[MineralMan]

6. Sure. It's HR jargon.

He forgot where he was and let it slip out. A very limited fellow, I think.

[greenjar_01]

14. Comes out of Gary Becker's work on human capital for Chicago school

It's a way a lot of econometric folks talk. Done particularly inartfully here.

[pwb]

7. They going to pen us up too?

They liked bullying the kids in cages to much.

[MineralMan]

9. They would if they could...

[TexasTowelie]

8. The bar code is already on your butt.

They believe that you will be less likely to see it there, particularly if you don't use a mirror.

Please place your item in the bag.

[MineralMan]

10. Let me just check...

LOL!

[Hekate]

11. My immediate reaction was a long, mournful Mooooo-oooo

What odious people they are

[moondust]

12. Branding.

[LanternWaste]

13. It's up there with...

saying one is comforted that the elderly are most susceptible to the virus.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Moo

[Niagara]

17. +1 I would like to add a snort to your moo.

And perhaps I should swish my tail around too.

[CousinIT]

16. What US women & girls have always been to the Republicans and evangelicals

Breed stock. Now, I guess they consider all non-billionaire workers the same thing: owned slaves, stock.

Pfft.

Welcome to the slave ship.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Started a long time ago...back when "personnel" became "human resources"...

[struggle4progress]

19. They sell you in the Stock Market and drive you to the Stock Yards so you can die for the Dow

[CanonRay]

20. Know your place, peon.

[JackintheGreen]

21. About 10 years ago the army had Human Terrain Systems

Anthropologists, political scientists, etc. assigned to units in Iraq to help soldiers interact with the locals. At least human capital stock attaches some nominal value to the sentient meat units in question.

[Brainfodder]

22. Sounds about right, compare CEO pay to typical workers?