The Church of Human Resources
For some, capitalism’s failures are to be redeemed not by political action but by civilization-scale moral projects under the remit of a new clergy: human resources.
Tyler Austin Harper is assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. His writing on politics, race, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and other outlets.
For some, capitalism’s failures are to be redeemed not by political action but by civilization-scale moral projects under the remit of a new clergy: human resources.
We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.