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In the mid to far future we will look back upon the concept of "human resources" the way we look back on slavery today. I'm not a Marxist BTW. I just think we

• hirako2000 5y ago
  I'm already looking at it that way. the concept of a company recruiting various agents under its name, the concept of managing cohorts of humans to extract most value from them, elaborating organisational structures with promotion/termination schemes, the whole thing is a form of modern slavery. - We are born with a certain social position - Many can't make ends meet - We are talked into thinking each can escape his fate and rise, if he work hard at it - Only a few get entirely liberated - The liberated are examplified as role models - Those are the top don't need to perform any work - They spend a good chunk of their time making sure their position isn't threatened - The owners are free to trade their ownership, and they often do No need to be Marxist to view the system as inherently rigged and work out a way to escape it in favor of independent trading relationships with one another,with no agency as intermediary.