What does the statement mean "investment in human capital"?

What are the costs and benefits related to this topic in the short run and the long run economically?

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develop the skills of the working class. make them more productive rather than creating millions of kfc fry cooks and mcdonald beef patty flippers as the ruling class has managed to do. the fools on the hill are mostly low-grade lawyers from unheard of diploma mills and have always devoted themselves to corporate america, namely the drug companies and hospital chains, utility companies and even the oil companies and the vast "defense" industry. but wait! now they have a new bone to chew on --- fighting terrorism. what a pervasive new enterprise for all sorts of strange business ventures. why invest in capital when you can just lease trained low-rent people in india, indonesia etc. perot predicted the sucking sound which now just a vague echo. FOLKS, WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED BY THE FOOLS ON THE HILL! aint that funny? ho ho ho, the jokes on we little people left to compete with millions of new immigrants flooding the borders and millions more in asia. what a joke huh? how could ross perot have known all that and we rejected his bid for president? well now we have the second generation of bush gov. will there be a third or to we get a second generation of bill and hillary? the latter seems inevitable. what a joke, eh? are you laughing?
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Well investment in human capital is referring to human labor. I think that in the short run such investment is very beneficial thus it has a positive correlation, it may start as negative but gets to be positive, in the long run I think it becomes a little bit less of an influence yet still positive- constant. I don't feel like giving you examples sorry. Figure it out, think in terms of starting a business and why you should employ alot at the beginning and how it would be affecting the sole proprietorship at first then how great of an effect it would had cause!
Investment in human capital means investing in the people that work for the company, eg. Human resource management and optimizing employees job satisfaction.
I would think they're talking about an employee for a company.
Is this employee going to produce enough for the company that having him/her on the payroll is worth while, or is this employee being paid for sitting around and doing no measurable amount of work, an added un-needed expense for the company?

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