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Nope. In my opinion. I'm not even sure re-conceiving of people as assets is sufficient.

I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we end up considering talent and human energy as a common pool of resources, just one large line item on an operating budget with little differentiation as to the cost of individual workers. Not quite sure (yet) how it might work .. but I think the means for managing overall cost relative to overall revenues are probably available, but not the mindsets.

For example, an org could pay the people that work for / with it monthly based on the past month's revenues (on an ongoing basis). But there would likely be regular (if not sometimes drastic fluctuations, and not many people today who are in full-time jobs would not like to put themselves into such a situation, unless ... they are deeply motivated by an org's mission and values.

This scenario is I think not unlike the core dynamics of what it means to be self-employed, and associated with the work of an organization as a short or medium-term contractor.

These thoughts are rudimentary and unpolished .. which is seen pretty easily by the fact that I'm probably unable to express clearly what I am thinikng about.