Zhihu question: How to view the term “human mine”?

Ten truths about human ore:

1. Human ore means that you are a resource, not the subject; you are a means, not an end. You spend your whole life’s energy to fulfill others, not to pursue the life you desire.

2. The life of human ore is divided into three stages: extraction, use, and residue and waste gas treatment. In the first ten years or so, investment in your education is to extract you and make you a usable ore. The next few decades are the process of use and consumption. Finally, when you can’t be used, you are disposed of in a way that minimizes pollution.

3. The energy generated by human ore in its lifetime is used not only to promote social progress but also to extract new human ore. Therefore, human ore is a renewable resource. It is suitable for this era of sustainable development.

4. But in special circumstances, human ore can also be converted into non-renewable. Possible situations include: the energy of human ore is extremely depleted, and it is unable to extract new human ore. Human ore has subjective consciousness and believes that it is meaningless to consume itself to extract new human ore. Human ore instinctively resists a life as ore.

5. The value of human ore is similar to that of resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas. If human ore is too abundant, it becomes cheap; scarcity makes it expensive.

6. If oil does not burn completely, it will produce harmful gases such as carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. Similarly, if human ore is not fully consumed, it will also have the energy to ponder harmful things. A good social environment needs to find ways to fully consume human ore.

7. The concept corresponding to human ore is the mine owner, referring to people who have mines. The mine owner mines coal, which gives the coal the opportunity to burn itself; the mine owner mines human ore, which gives people the blessing of self-sacrifice. The process of social progress is the process of shifting from consuming non-renewable energy to renewable energy, and it is the process of the mine owner evolving from a coal boss to a human boss.

8. The wheels of history roll forward, mainly driven by human ore. As human ore, there is almost no choice. Either you are the fuel that drives it, or you are crushed by its wheels. Conversely, if human ore does not drive it forward, then the remaining human ore will not be crushed. But there are always human ore who believe that a life as fuel is more valuable than a life of being crushed.

9. When you realize that you are human ore, it is actually the time when your self-awareness awakens. “Human” and “ore” are inherently contradictory. Humans are the subject that measures the value of all things, and ore is the object whose value is measured by others. Ore exists to meet the needs of humans, and the reason why humans feel their existence is because they still have needs.

10. The awakened human ore is painful—if he cannot change anything. To reduce this pain, he can only be muddled and pretend to be asleep. Burning himself day after day. Therefore, when you see a silent human ore, you don’t know how many human ore are actually awake here. Until a special moment.

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Latinfish:

The word “human ore” is good, not because of its fancy rhetoric or innovative ideas. “Human ore” is good because it is harsh, straightforward, and bloody; it digs out the blood and tears, bones and marrow behind the peace and presents them before your eyes, making you unable to escape.

Rose:

Our country’s competitiveness is the high-quality and low-cost human ore, as well as the long-standing and excellent human ore management technology.

Anonymous user:

I’m laughing to death. A few years ago, patriotic big Vs were still saying that other countries were trapped in the “resource trap.”

Anonymous user:

How about we just call them cattle and horses? I’m scared of the word human ore.

Coward, block it:

If we call ourselves the masters of our country, many things cannot be explained.

If we call ourselves human ore, then everything makes sense.

Li Yifan:

It perfectly explains why the problems faced by a certain country and the “resource curse” faced by those resource-dependent countries seem so similar. As long as you don’t treat people as people but as a certain natural resource like various minerals, oil, and natural gas, then all problems can be explained.

Anonymous user:

Human ore: Huminerals / Renmine / Humore

Big White Rabbit:

After all, I used to often ridicule countries in the Middle East and other countries for only owning oil and not needing any technology, and then praise the Qin system.

Back to the topic, this word is invented with precision.

Zhihu user:

Hot cheese, as early as March 20, 1984, the second edition of Folk’s Daily’s column article “Catching the ‘Ox Nose’ – Notes on the Township Enterprises of Luo Zhuang Commune” already had the word “human ore”!