Pic Of The Moment: So Much For "We The People"

[EarlG]

Trump's Economic Adviser Calls Americans Facing Unemployment 'Human Capital Stock'

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[stopbush]

1. I hate that grinning asshole.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. There's a punchable face. 😒

[2naSalit]

40. Indeed.

Serious competition for Ted Cruz.

[gordianot]

3. Some of that stock is not worth much and is defective.

[Maven]

4. Parasites.

Sociopaths.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. The same was true for most economic downturns

In 1929 and 2008 we didn't get bombed into depressions but they still lasted until we put Democrats in charge.

[skypilot]

6. On top of how f***ed up it is...

...that he sees us that way, there is the simple fact that it would have taken fewer syllables to just say people or citizens.

[Canoe52]

7. It's kinda catchy "we the human capital stock, in order to form a more perfect union..."

[yaesu]

8. We the people are a new commodity traded by the wall street banksters. nt

[dameatball]

9. It's not often that someone I have never heard of jumps up so many notches on my hate ladder. This

guy must have real talent. A real, natural shithead.

[silverweb]

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.

[pazzyanne]

13. Shines a bright light on their attitude toward poor, elderly, VA, medically fragile, etc. nt

[silverweb]

45. Yes it does.

And a horrific attitude it is.

[Saviolo]

20. Well, of course.

Why would people be called "human resources" if they weren't meant to be strip-mined.

[silverweb]

46. That's the idea.

The language has been changed to reflect our true function in the oligarchs' society -- and it seems that most have just accepted it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. And "customers" became "consumers"

[silverweb]

44. Yes!

That's another one that pisses me off. TPTB have been attempting to systematically reduce us, living human beings, to our monetary function in the oligarchs' economy as our only worth. Most people have simply accepted the language that has been changed over time to reflect this, which points to the effectiveness of the ploy.

[2naSalit]

41. +++

[Cyrano]

11. Moooo

[Evolve Dammit]

12. The basket of despicables. We are past deplorable. We're in mob boss/ robber barron territory now.

It is a crime syndicate

[El Mimbreno]

14. "human capital stock"...

Sorta like "livestock"?

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Much worse

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213485700

[Gothmog]

15. K&R

[LakeArenal]

16. There really isn't a bottom to scrape, is there?

You’d think they would eventually hit bedrock. But no. They dig deeper into the abyss and find more molten spew.

[hadEnuf]

17. They live in a pool of shit.

No bottom is necessary.

[ancianita]

18. It's like glimpsing an internal dispatch from the US Nazi plantation's overseers --

that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and employment are privileges that should never be conferred by austerity capitalism just because some silly "constitution" says so.

This is what we get for listening to the Chicago Boys who organized out of the Mont Pelerin Society's (Friedrich Hayek, Frank Knight, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler and Milton Friedman) plans for silly democracies. Yes, Charles Koch has been one of that society's presidents, by turn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Rev Doctor Barber

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213485700

[ancianita]

29. Yep. We're back there. The old plantation language. Rev. Barber knows.

This time, it's 40 million paycheck-to-paycheck whites and blacks together, whose taxes have been taken, the social contract's in shreds, and the guarantee of the feds using our money for us -- that we entrusted them with -- is nothing but a sucker's bet.

[2naSalit]

42. ++++++++++++++++!!!

[MFGsunny]

19. When "human capital stock" likely equals "chattel" of older times with these folks.

The flagrant inhumanity and dispassionate debasing of WE, THE PEOPLE is strong with this mal-administration!

Pathology personified.

YET, we RESIST.
YET, we PERSIST.

[littlemissmartypants]

22. The term has historic American significance.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213485700

[MFGsunny]

27. Exactly. TYVM for Rev. Barber's reminder! I had not seen it before. n/t

[Yonnie3]

24. "human capital stock"

I thought the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the 13th Amendment of 1865 ended the treatment of humans as stock or as a capital asset.

Fuck you Hasset.

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Where the term originated...

Human Capital Stock, Rev. Dr. Barber Tweet
Before 1865, American insurance companies sold policies to protect “human capital stock.” But the 13th amendment abolished the practice of owning human beings. Some folks need to be reminded.

https://t.co/HN0unJK2DR

[ancianita]

30. "Human stock" was always a corporate term. Racial capitalism was always the foundation of

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what insurance companies did, like investing in slaver shipping in previous centuries, and selling "policies" in black neighborhoods in the 20th century.

Without the word "owning" being explicitly used re humans, the corporations and racial capitalists still own everything in the system that humans have trusted to live in equality and pursue opportunity. Now, with the nation's assets being stripped and monopolies taking over, there is neither.

From corporate campus to plantation to reservation. Humans are now disposable, due process and rule of law be damned. Nothing personal, just business.

[yuiyoshida]

26. It won't be too soon ...

Before we toss these bums out of office.

[tclambert]

28. Sounds like something a slave owner would say.

[Aussie105]

31. Disposible human work units.

Always been that to bosses, now its out in the open.

[The Mouth]

32. Shit, we've been "Human Resources"

for decades.

It used to be the 'Personnel" department, but 'human resources' is how they really think of us.

[HotRod Deluxe]

33. Could be worse

At least we're not human stock excrement like that beaver toothed bitch!!!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

34. It's as if the ghost of Ayn Rand has possessed the entire Trump administration. n/t

[George II]

35. What is "human capital"? Are we back in the 1850s again?

[PatrickforO]

37. Ah, hello George. I was just commenting on another thread

that our federally funded workforce development system uses the term 'human capital' all the time, and has since around the mid-2000s. That says something bad, not necessarily about the people performing the services at the local level, but certainly about federal policy.

[PatrickforO]

36. This Hassett sure is a smug man, isn't he?

Disgusting. And 'human capital stock' is just a euphemism for slaves. It was then and it is now.

[Aussie105]

38. and they are keen to go back to work because . . .

they are out of money and have no choice.

Slaves is the right word. Don't work, you don't eat.

[tanyev]

43. Geez, pretty soon they'll be dividing us into 13 districts.