"Imagine if you took over Silicon Valley, if you conquered it with troops. Where the most valuable companies in the world are, where the richest people in the world invest, what would you get? Nothing."
This sentence appears in Harari's books. Because the only thing that makes Silicon Valley valuable is the people who add value to it. The creativity, intelligence and quality of education of these people make it valuable. They produced 1 gram chips with 10 billion transistors in them from sea sand and opened and closed an era with this. They changed the whole world. This could only be done with human capital, and so it was. Nothing else is needed.
Human capital has always been the most important factor to determine the success of a company and even a country, however during the last decades there has been a shift in the way many companies treat their employees, treating them as if they are just cogs in the machine and they can just replace you with another person without too much of a problem, and while this can be the case in a great deal of positions, there are many employees which quit their jobs or were fired and showed their previous employers that they were indispensable for the operations of the company.
