Chinese people fed up with the rat race are calling themselves ‘huminerals’ – human resources to be relentlessly exploited and discarded

A Chinese office worker wears a protective mask as she waits to take a public bus after leaving work on March 2, 2020 in Beijing, China Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Some Chinese people have started calling themselves “huminerals.” The slang term refers to people who have been cultivated as resources to be used and discarded. It’s yet another term coined by young internet users jaded with their lot in life. Chinese office workers jaded with the urban grind have taken to calling themselves “huminerals,” a bitter slang term describing humans born for the sole purpose of being used by society and…