low-quality, low-effort. human capital under the current corporate model of 'buy up assets to increase your company's book-value and hire swarths of mediocre talent to monitor them while they sit idle' is nearly perfectly interchangeable. companies that control the majority of investment capital and have the largest stock market capitalizations don't need high-quality people, because they don't innovate or create anything. they just buy things, own things, and borrow against them. if it weren't interchangeable, they wouldn't be constantly lobbying to ship jobs overseas and to bring in immigrants to do them on h1b's. their behavior speaks for itself.
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