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White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work." (Original Post) demmiblue May 2020 OP
Yes... that's what we are... Zoonart May 2020 #1
I just can't even. demmiblue May 2020 #3
In an earlier time matt819 May 2020 #2
Yep. Maddening. n/t demmiblue May 2020 #5
sounds like an alien qazplm135 May 2020 #4
Does he consider them collateral damage if they die reopening the economy? dem4decades May 2020 #6
Hands down... yes. Also, sacrificial lambs. n/t demmiblue May 2020 #9
We can put a flag on their grave on Memorial Day. dem4decades May 2020 #14
From a guy who hasnt worked a day in his life, probably, like rump. Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #7
A short time before I retired lunatica May 2020 #8
I didn't know this was a thing. demmiblue May 2020 #10
Yes it is. lunatica May 2020 #15
Natural result of placing economics over society delisen May 2020 #11
yet another highly punchable face.... dhill926 May 2020 #12
He's always got that fucking smile on his face PCIntern May 2020 #13
It reminds me of Bill Kristol. demmiblue May 2020 #20
Someone should tell him that he's a pig. greatauntoftriplets May 2020 #16
Kevin Hasslett - Grinning Idiot dem4decades May 2020 #17
A sycophant of huge proportions. We're just widgets to these heartless fucks. spanone May 2020 #18
Why don't they just brand us, stick.a tag in our ears and move on Danmel May 2020 #19
I don't know who in the hell he talked to but a lot of the people I talked to aren't exactly jumping SWBTATTReg May 2020 #21
"Human capitol stock"?!? whathehell May 2020 #22
His smile makes me want to slap him. Evergreen Emerald May 2020 #23
Look at that shit-eating grin on his fat little face. smirkymonkey May 2020 #24
+1 N/T Glorfindel May 2020 #27
there are stock dividends and shareholder payouts to protect of course.......... Takket May 2020 #25
Now, EVERY worker in America knows how girls & women feel - treated as male service unit/incubators. CousinIT May 2020 #26
The Genius With The "Cubic Model" ProfessorGAC May 2020 #28
And if we die, that's just collateral damage. intheflow May 2020 #29
Human capital stock keithbvadu2 May 2020 #30
"Get back to work, my chattels!" struggle4progress May 2020 #31
Moo...just ...moo. Maeve May 2020 #32
Something is not right about that dude. pwb May 2020 #33

matt819

(10,749 posts)
2. In an earlier time
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:37 PM
May 2020

He would be calling them serfs. Or peasants. And he would report to his king, “your majesty, the peasants are revolting.”

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. A short time before I retired
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:39 PM
May 2020

employees were beginning to be called Capital rather than Personnel. It was time to leave while I was still counted as a person.

The other thing assholes like a Dubya and Trump call people is Consumers rather than Citizens.

Words matter.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. Yes it is.
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:51 PM
May 2020

Trump does it without even thinking. When he thinks of us, which isn’t often, it’s as consumers. Actually he most likely thinks of us marks because his first thought is invariably, “What’s in it for me”

delisen

(6,039 posts)
11. Natural result of placing economics over society
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:47 PM
May 2020

Our social system must be paramount over any economic system.
.
Our social system is primary and must be based on equal rights and democracy.

demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
20. It reminds me of Bill Kristol.
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:57 PM
May 2020

Although he speaks out against Trump, he still is an architect of what is happening today.

Asshole (however, please proceed). What-a-world.

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
21. I don't know who in the hell he talked to but a lot of the people I talked to aren't exactly jumping
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:01 PM
May 2020

the gun to go back to work nor having their jobs declared essential all of a sudden and being forced to continue to work. Is it amazing all of a sudden how many jobs are 'essential' now? And where does this idiot get the term 'human stock'? I've got two economic degrees and don't recall these terms ever being used to describe used to describe human beings. This guy would fail miserably at being a manager.

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
22. "Human capitol stock"?!?
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:02 PM
May 2020

Like herds of cattle?

Objections should have been raised back when the Personnel
Department changed into "Human Resources".

CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
26. Now, EVERY worker in America knows how girls & women feel - treated as male service unit/incubators.
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:31 PM
May 2020

Turns out the same party that considers females just sex and reproductive slaves, considers the entire American workforce slaves/livestock.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
28. The Genius With The "Cubic Model"
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:43 PM
May 2020

Just remember, this was the idiot that built a model, which he gave a meaningless name, that said deaths would be zero by May 15.
They need to stop you interviewing this guy.
He publicly established had myself as a clueless buffoon.

intheflow

(28,407 posts)
29. And if we die, that's just collateral damage.
Mon May 25, 2020, 05:32 PM
May 2020

I'm really sick of these assholes and their racist capitalist killing of citizens, the nation, and the planet.

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