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No one could foresee treating labor as a disposable commodity item would have negative consequences. Who knew?

The phrase Human Resources always sounds so 20th Century to me.

It's an awful term in so many ways. Resources are things that we exhaust, pump dry, clear cut, and eventually discard. I've always though human resources always seemed awkwardly close in tone to terms like human cattle.

>Resources are things that we exhaust, pump dry, clear cut, and eventually discard.

This is how humans treat nature without mindfulness. I suppose it should not be a surprise when we treat each other as we do nature. As humans are also part of nature.

> Resources are things that we exhaust, pump dry, clear cut, and eventually discard.

sounds pretty accurate to me.

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