Sometimes the truth just slips out — we are but a line item on a spreadsheet:
… public service commissioner Sir Brian Roche on RNZ … Speaking about the recently announced 8,700 job cuts coming for the public service … : “It’s regrettable that this is going to occur, but change does require it being made – and there will be an impact on human capital.”
[Spinoff writer] There it was, as clear as day, a new way for me, a wage earner, to identify: I am human capital.
Via: Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital | The Spinoff.