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@lemmy.world
    58·
    1 year 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@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year 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@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year 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

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      10·
      1 year ago

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

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

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year 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@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year 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.

    • rainynight65@feddit.de
      22·
      1 year ago

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