Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place

I remember when I was younger, having low unemployment was considered a good thing, universally desired it seemed. Only in late stage capitalism is it a requirement that we have people who can’t find a job so the working class doesn’t get too uppity.

Someone should unemploy him, you know, to help his numbers.

Fuck this cunt

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 🤬

i think this guys face should meet a crowbar

I hope this isn't a bannable comment, but someone needs to bring out the fucking guillotine for these fucks.

What is it with property developers and being brainless dicks?

We should indeed have more unemployed people, since we should strive to a world where nobody has to work anymore.

Implement Universal Basic Income.

This is the original "stop eating smashed avocado on toast" guy.

This guy need to improve the planet by being a lot less alive.

About 100% less should do the trick.

I live in his city and I will not hesitate to tip my $6.50 latte over his narcissistic noggin, should the opportunity arise.

Unemployment needs to jump 40-50%??? Is this guy seriously that utterly disconnected with reality? In Aus it’s never hit more than 12% in the last 4 decades, the economy would just collapse if unemployment got that high. It only got to 32% during the Great Depression in the US.

"We need to see unemployment rise," he argued. "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... There's been a systemic change where the employees feel that the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around."

You love to see it.

Also, lots of comments about guillotines here. We might get some concern trolls about that, but at the very least, it sure is a problem when a billionaire like Tim feels like he can say something so outrageous without any consequences.

The guillotine building industry has to jump to put these corporate dirtbags in their place

Stock market needs to go down to put arrogant Billionaire in their place.

Can we bring out the guillotines already? Serious.

We should put arrogant CEOs in their place.

Rich people are loosing the fear of workers that was deeply ingrained in their DNA by the french. They should be afraid again. Maybe pinata economy is the most logic way to go.

i hate these greedflation causing piece of shits. complete and total arrogance. admiral klancy said it best

Unemployed Aussies should show up at his house.

Arrogant billionaire complains about having to operate in a free market. Oh the irony...

Lol. I actually read the article and it's Tim fucking Gurner.

I've got friends who work as consultants for his projects and it's more of a "do as I say" relationship. He buys up properties and then turns them into "luxury" apartments or hotels for his rich mates.

He's part of our affordable housing crisis.

And he goes on to make this statement. Good grief.

Billionaire has to jump....

Off a cliff

Pierre
Get the guillotine

I really do think it's time to break out the guillotines.

These retarded rich fucks don't really understand that the only reason society is not killing them yet is because many people have a shitty job which can at least feed them. You take that away and motherfucker hungry people will revolt.

as we know... good billionaire is dead billionaire

But if you consider the counter-argument, maybe arrogant billionaires need to be reminded again that the deal by which they wouldn't be dragged out of their homes and beaten senseless in front of their families was that they'd pay a living wage and deal with unions and submit to antitrust regulations

Another parasite sucking up all of our resources for itself.

As much as I bitch about Lemmy, I am glad to be on a platform where we can openly advocate to put the aristocracy in guillotines without getting banned or otherwise punished for it.

On the plus side, people on both sides of the aisle hate this dude.

We should seize all his shit

Some CEOs deserve to be fired... out of a cannon... at a brick wall... covered in large spikes.

Let's eat him first.

Ok, lets start by labelling CEO's who don't do shit as "unemployed".

Next is every billionaire that don't pay the taxes they are owed.

The cruelty is the point.

I'm putting in a proportional amount of effort for my pay compared to what my CEO does for his pay. Seems fair to me.

High time for Pinata Economy.

Nothing like being scolded by a nepo baby!

They realize 40% of the population isn't employed, right?

And I say in order to fix things he should jump off a cliff. Maybe he should try my idea since it only hurts one person instead of millions.

Guy's a fucking moron, Australia could not survive such high unemployment - nor could any modern economy.

Damn look like that dudes forehead had to jump to get away from his rat face.

I hope this entitled cunt has to pay for sex for the rest of his life/

I mean, I have talked with a number of people who know that there are people they work with that are little more than "warm bodies" and get by doing as little as possible while dumping everything they can on someone else. They stay employed because "at least they do something" and there is no one else to do it. Before I get a "low pay" response, these are working professionals and paid accordingly.

It is also a well know economics trend (Phillips curve) that states as unemployed falls, inflation rises. Most countries are underemployed, and it is driving inflation.

Unless he is saying all workers are arrogant and entitled, in which case fuck him.