Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital

The finance minister and public service commissioner’s handling of the public service cuts inspires The Spinoff’s human capital, Veronica Schmidt, to change her identity and reframe her past.

Thanks to Nicola Willis and Brian Roche, I now get that I’m just human capital. The finance minister and public service commissioner’s handling of the public service cuts inspires The Spinoff’s human capital, Veronica Schmidt, to change her identity and reframe her past. In a complicated world, sometimes your identity can become murky and you can lose sight of who you really are. Until I listened to public service commissioner Sir Brian Roche on RNZ this morning, I had the existential questions we all do: Who am I? What’s my value? Is there a point to this life? As Roche talked though, the mists cleared and a shaft of light illuminated my existence. Speaking about the recently announced 8,700 job cuts coming for the public service, which Roche will be responsible for executing, he told John Campbell: “It’s regrettable that this is going t...