Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: “We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”
Engineering manager here: I am very lucky to have my team, I need them more than they need me, and I think anyone saying otherwise is fooling themselves.
Both in the sense that this is a bullshit thing to say, and in the sense that this is the sort of thing that, if misquoted, could get innocent (at least of saying something like that) people hurt.
If unemployment hits 40%, there would actually be a revolution (lib, fash, or real). Even this bozo gotta know that. Like, HALF of everyone who wants to work being out of work??? It would be society rending. The Great Depression “only” hit 25%. 40-50% would be actually insane.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
least insane liberal: “yes we should intentionally ensure a significant proportion of our working age population is rendered destitute, desperate, and useless. This is good for society”
this is why liberalism is a losing ideology: imagine intentionally not utilizing all of your available productive forces so some bourgeois parasites can further fatten themselves off the suffering of your citizenry.
If you really want to increase labor productivity: achieve full employment and liquidate the unproductive capitalist class instead porky-scared
US unemployment rate is 3.8% as of August, so this guy is calling for roughly 70k people to die so that he can get back to his power fantasy and his pesky employees will stop having uncomfortable conversations with him about petty grievances like “feeding their families” and “keeping a roof over their head”
Add comment