1/ This is crazy. Whatever Gary Becker said, "human capital," as used by economists, denotes the increased productivity that people gain through education and experience. It's not something that people are; its something they have. https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1265351245423730688

2/ Slavery is a completely different case. Slaves actually were capital - which is precisely the offense of slavery.

Kevin Hassett was being an idiot - no surprise.

The real question is whether it is fair to pressure workers to return to workplaces at a time of high risk.

3/ Probably everyone on this thread thinks it is unfair. Let's so advocate.

But I don't think conflating different uses of the same word helps our case. /e