Although he subsequently apologised for the phrasing, Bill Winters (CEO, Standard Chartered), has introduced the phrase 'lower-value human capital' in to public discourse....

If you ever wanted an example of the contempt that our executive business class have for ordinary workers, this would be it... in just four words, Winters summed up the way the top table in most firms seem to see their workforce.

The inhumanity of the capitalist class is not new, but increasingly brazen!

#workers
h/t FT

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

They already did it by inference: wealth management, high net worth clients, etc. It's not just CEO's & executives though. You'll discover it under the covers in the political classes, landowners, celebrities, and so on. Class isn't dead, it never has been, just different people become the elite ... and want to stay there.