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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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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Housing, healthcare, insurance - it is expensive because there is not enough competition - or socialism.

More playing pretend at knowing even basic economics. "competition" is a little false god that you worship because you're afraid of learning something that challenges the rest of your religion. How sad.

Real estate and housing prices balloon wherever finance and speculation are allowed to operate on them. Feel free to go learn about this at your leisure, as it's pretty clear you are actively avoiding learning anything from me.

Mark Cuban's pharmacy changes the market. In the same way, somebody could organize resources and create broad competition for all housing and healthcare markets.

At what rate are healthcare costs, including insurance, increasing under your oligarch's new regime? What about the median cost of pharmaceuticals per person?

You are sure that I don't know enough.

Yeah duh. It's not like these patterns of deflection are subtle and you're just repeating words lazily absorbed from your masters. The idea of applying thought to them is clearly not on the table.

How do you know that your knowledge about economy is enough or whom to trust to run socialism?

An incoherent, non-grammatical question that actively ignores everything I've told you about socialism. Sounds about right.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In which housing market without limited supply do prices balloon?

Do you expect me to believe that competition doesn't work at all? We started this discussion with reduced wages due to increased competition among workers.

Do you want to introduce socialism to prevent competition entirely?

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking I'm going to answer any of your questions while you've ignored all of mine and most of what I've said.

You're on your own now, lib. Let's see if you can be honest with yourself.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You have two rhetorical questions. You must know that competition ceases within an oligarchy and that my point was to argue for competition and not oligarchy.

Thanks for the exchange.