Our Human Capital Stock is ready to go back to work says white house advisor

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-economic-advisor-hassett-human-capital-stock-1004909/

It’s not that the remark is grotesque, though it is. It’s that any sci-fi writer who gave mustache-twirling dialogue like this to a villain would be ridiculed as a hack.
-AbeGoldfarb

[Madner Kami]

You do realize, that human capital stock is a well defined scientific term and that him using that word results directly from both his background and the context of what he is talking about?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Do you realize that in no way negates the quote?

[Madner Kami]

It negates the stupid outrage. Context is everything. The article ignores it.

[TGLS]

In all honesty this guy clearly didn't understand the optics and shouldn't have put on camera.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

These are incredibly innocuous terms and distinctions. It's interchangeable with labor force.

[GreyICE]

And labor force is interchangeable with wage slaves.

The reason this flash in the pan is a big deal is because people realize that the plan is there is no plan. OSHA has an incredibly detailed plan on how to handle COVID-19 in the workplace: https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf

And to date, I haven't even seen anyone reference the document, let alone show signs of following it.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

And labor force is interchangeable with wage slaves.

I don't think anyone predominantly associates the term slavery without including hard bound restrictions on their being. There's plenty of things you can say about how people are potentially obligated to adhere to a wage system through confounding social factors, but to conflate the two on a broad level is pretty dubious.

Labor force isn't sensationalized pejoratively much.