From the above aldaily.com link —
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/10/ From a review of …
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion … as she grew up in Texas. In a way, she was primed for the illimitable expanse of the Internet by her Christian upbringing, which teaches its followers that everyone on earth is being watched by God. It gave her a flight of optimism, before this same system slowly but surely “metastasize[d] into a wreck”: “this feverish, electric, unlivable hell.” While the Internet was meant to allow you to reach out to any- and everyone without a hint of the cruel discriminations that blight our world, it turned into the opposite, a forum where individuals are less speaking to other people than preening and listening to themselves—turning themselves into desirable objects to be coveted by all. It became, that is, the perfect embodiment of consumer capitalism, where everything can be touted in the marketplace. How, Tolentino asks, did the idea take hold that “ordinary personhood would seamlessly adjust itself around whatever within it would sell”? How did our basic humanity come to be “reframed as an exploitable viral asset”? |
Related course — "History and Human Capital" at Harvard, a course
taught last spring by professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz —
Related reading — "Human Capital," by Claudia Goldin:
The above material suggested this post's title, "Das Humankapital ."
The same phrase is also the title of a perceptive website from Linz, Austria.
* For the alternative title, see a Wikipedia article on The Jew of Linz .