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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Human Capital Stock. An ugly term w ugly history, but for many powerful ppl it‘s their most honest view of workers: human stock. By their logic, the moment a person stops being useful to profit motive (retirement, health, etc) they are a liability. That’s the system we live in.
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White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work." #HumanCapitalStock
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Let’s also not ignore the racial history of this terminology, which has roots in slavery. &It’s not just the terminology that’s racialized. Even today, the folks deemed as “human capital stock”(aka essential workers) are disproportionately Black, Brown, & low income White folks.
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Ali🌻
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Errr, disagree. Human capital is a standard economic term and it’s important for us to acknowledge it in hopes of measuring and improving economic indicators for human capital, i.e. working conditions, workplace satisfaction, etc. Dismissing the term doesn’t help accomplish this.
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