Human Capital

Written By
Tom Parrish
MetaTech Sales Guy

“Ministers meet, work on the movement of goods
Also work on the movement of capital
Also work on the movement of human beings
As if we were so many cattle…”
“Grim Travelers”
Bruce Cockburn
Humans, 1980

So I was driving to work listening to Grim Travelers and got to thinking, don’t you sometimes wonder how the pseudo-experts came up with the pairing of the words Human and Capital? For me, this is like visually pairing the finest crystal swan – beautiful, rare, fragile beyond any one’s imagination and the Caterpillar 797B, the ultra-class mining truck deployed to the Ft. McMurray area of Alberta for tar-sands excavation. (visual depiction below)

Human


+

Capital


Now, don’t get me wrong…I get as turned on as the next guy at the thought of the application of modern operations research techniques to the problems of optimizing the human supply-chain, but really, doesn’t all this pseudo-expert drivel make you want to scream?!

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