• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Under capitalism the people are a natural resource to be exploited for wealth, just like minerals, wood, and arable land.

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      3 months ago

      The clue is in the term “Human Resources”. I can’t believe people just accept the existence of this phrase.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah. And “human capital” is another one that just makes my skin crawl.

        FWIW, there are a bunch of folks trying to shift the practice over to “People Ops”, while refering to employees as actual people, which is way better. As a bonus, this gives the formerly called HR people a more meaningful scope for their work.

        That said, the name or the idea does’t keep some from whitewashing or running with PeopleOps as a kind of virtue signal. Consider this article that minces all of this together while making it sound normal: https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/articles/rise-of-people-ops/

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      3 months ago

      The final conclusion of capitalism is one solitary person holding all money. Like some crazy real life form of monopoly.

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        3 months ago

        That’s because the game was specifically meant to show people what capitalism does.