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

• 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 the economy.

"You are a resource, not a protagonist. You are a means, not an end," read a blog post that introduced the term to Chinese social media on December 31.