An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.The Australian Financial Review reports that Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, exp...
  • @Viking_Hippie
    59•8 months ago

    Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view. We need to see some pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around

    What a fucking asshole! True “we need to show those uppity peasant who’s boss” energy 🤬

    • @Luvs2Spuj
      13•8 months ago

      Employee and employer work TOGETHER. I would love to meet this guy in person, real let them eat cake energy. Anyway, where’s my guillotine sharpener.?

      • @Viking_Hippie
        4•8 months ago

        Employee and employer work TOGETHER

        Sounds like commie talk to me. How long have you been a member of the Communist Party of America? /s

    • @[email protected]
      10•8 months ago

      The thing is, the workers work for money, not for the employer.

      The employer is just a middleman that can easily be replaced.

        • @Shardikprime
          -2•8 months ago

          Indeed. Anyone earning more than 40k annual salary belongs to the richest 3% in the world. Get ready gringos, we third world countries are coming for you

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
      8•8 months ago

      When we have nothing to lose, then we have no problem eating the billionaires.

    • @Cruxifux
      1•8 months ago

      If billionaires ruined the economy in such a way that 50 percent of people couldn’t afford to feed their families then I like to think that people would simply eat the billionaires.

      But that’s wishful thinking and seeing how people interact in public and online makes me think that way too many people still think billionaires are awesome.

      • @Viking_Hippie
        1•8 months ago

        If billionaires ruined the economy in such a way that 50 percent of people couldn’t afford to feed their families

        What do you mean “if”? They’re well on the way already and it’s getting worse, not better.

        then I like to think that people would simply eat the billionaires.

        Problem with that is that owning everything also includes bodyguards and even de facto private armies.

        way too many people still think billionaires are awesome.

        Unfortunately you’re absolutely right.

    • @[email protected]
      0•8 months ago

      Tim Gurner is talking like someone who has never been an employee, much less experienced actual poverty.

      • @Viking_Hippie
        1•8 months ago

        You talking about me? Because you’d be wrong on both counts. That’s part of why I despise greedy and power-hungry billionaires (but I repeat myself) like him…

        Or did you mean him?