I would like to ask some questions to the author, at the risk of addressing a robot.
- What kind of value do humans have?
- Do people with slower (cognitive) processing have a right to exist?
- Should we get rid of people with disabilities?
I got chills from reading this letter. It sends the message people are just human resources.
If someone is not performing that well, can you help them? provide training? If someone does not meet the bar of widget per minute, even after lots of trying, but is a fine team mate who finds their happiness doing their best they can, aren't you happy to help someone with a stable income and a meaningful job in society? Wouldn't that be a great company? Wouldn't make that YOU a real human?
It is crazy that this term got normalized. I have seen human resources and will never be able to unsee them.
As a tangent, power does not just corrupt people, corrupt people will seek power first. At least, that is what one would think reading stuff like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757827
- What kind of value do humans have?
- Do people with slower (cognitive) processing have a right to exist?
- Should we get rid of people with disabilities?
I got chills from reading this letter. It sends the message people are just human resources.
If someone is not performing that well, can you help them? provide training? If someone does not meet the bar of widget per minute, even after lots of trying, but is a fine team mate who finds their happiness doing their best they can, aren't you happy to help someone with a stable income and a meaningful job in society? Wouldn't that be a great company? Wouldn't make that YOU a real human?