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CEO says COVID gave us bad habits, prescribes unemployment of 40-50% (twitter.com)
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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."

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[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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