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...
    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
      321·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, that’s someone who has so much money he doesn’t understand it.

      If a $4 latte a day is a significant financial burden for you, you will never own a home. If you can own a home, that $4 latte will have no effect on that.

      And the avacado toast? The health effects alone are likely to pay for itself in the medium-term.

        • stereofony@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          You jest but there’s literally a hipster coffee shop in SF that famously sells a $10 toast…as of 2014 when I first heard about it from my roommate who worked there so it’s probably $15 by now.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      241·
      10 months ago

      It’s the 21st Century’s “let them eat cake”. Hopefully he’ll see the same fate as Marie Antoinette.

    • solstice@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      Man I wish I could buy a $4 latte. Prices for everything are just insane these days. I feel like a basic bitch coffee and croissant at any random place is gonna be $10 now. They’re trying to tell us it’s monetary inflation and/or supply chains but that’s all bullshit. I’m in Northern Europe right now and even in pricey chic downtown areas it’ll be like €5 tops.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    881·
    10 months ago

    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.

    So said every vicious aristocrat throughout history.

    Whether owner of slaves, serfs or workers - elites always believe it’s their right to inflict harm on others.

    Eat the rich, put us out of their misery.

    • Murais@lemmy.one
      23·
      10 months ago

      As long as you commodify my labor, it has value.

      Whose labor generates more value? The worker, who creates the product being sold to generate profit, or the boss who manages them?

    • Zacryon@feddit.de
      211·
      10 months ago

      We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around

      Oh and I was sitting here thinking, that employers and employees share a mutually profitable relationship. Employees provide services to employers and employers provide financial gains for their employees.

      But no, modern slavery it is. Alright.

  • Saneless@lemmy.world
    77·
    10 months ago

    Brave statement from a man who is only alive because the poors would rather not get arrested

  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
    59·
    10 months ago

    “We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around,”

    Whelp I guess if you work for him in any capacity you should show Mr. DumbFuck who actually needs who to survive.

    I have the urge to write a wall of text but I literally can’t. This shit is a no brainer, imagine being yet another know it all trust fund baby who gets their way by hurting people into manipulation.

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
      15·
      10 months ago

      Does he not know that they are selling their labour to him? He is the client that needs them, they don’t need him. They can take their product elsewhere.

    • _number8_@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      “We need to see unemployment rise,” he argued. "Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view.

      this actually made me laugh and feel way better; he’s just a complete fucking moron and around as cruel as average

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    53·
    10 months ago

    He actually says they (the rich owners) need to “hurt the economy”. Economic terrorist.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      271·
      10 months ago

      We toppled Saddam because he wanted to ditch the dollar. I don’t think this fuckstick or Elon Marshmallow man have the same level entourage.

      All the Russian oligarchs what is like to have all your assets seized, and just me tell ya, Id suffocate from laughter before I ever gave one fuck about the obscenely rich.

      I’m ready to Make America Great Again, by taxing any and all assets over 10million, annually, at 75%. The squeaky wheel gets it raised to 85% Back in the oft romanticized golden days the upper tax rate was 90%

      Maybe I’m alone in this opinion but I don’t think someone should be able to have one idea that sells and then never have to work again. Like, if we all worked 4 hrs a week then fine, but nowadays, with modern tax chattle slavery? Naw man. Edison, Tesla, those guys had to keep inventing. Mr Mypillow can go die under an overpass.

      Fuck billionaires. We need a special forces team for the IRS, they can jump from helicopters with their calculator’s ribbon.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
        101·
        10 months ago

        This was gold to read.

        I agree. Amassing such volume of wealth that a single individual jas more wealth than many sovereign nations put together is ludicrous.

        I’m not against a person making money for their work and ideas but to the point where they can take other companies from business out of spite and mess with the entire economy for sport?

        I like to say I don’t mind paying taxes. In my country it buys me services and civilization, regardless being far from perfect. If I made a million a year, I could not spend it. I can’t imagine what it takes to spend a million.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Edison has more in common with billionaires than with inventors.

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        10 months ago

        Can we stop calling russian billionaires “oligarchs” but other billionaires as just “billionaires”? Both are oligarchs.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        73·
        10 months ago

        We toppled Saddam because he wanted to ditch the dollar

        Lmao imagine thinking we went to war in Iraq over Saddam wanting to be poor.

      • BritishJ@lemmy.world
        114·
        10 months ago

        75% on 10M is 7.5M. This is how you get people to end up paying $0, because that rate is far to high. Its like saying for every $1 you earn, you will get $0.25C. Yeah you wouldn’t be happy with that.

        30% of 10M is better than 0% of 10M. If I had that money and they wanted to charge me 75% tax, I would rather pay a smart accountant 1M and get to keep 9M.

      • Grayox@lemmy.ml
        23·
        10 months ago

        They are going mask off about how poverty is a feature and not a bug of our system. Without poverty the ability to exploit workers is extremely diminished. Utterly despicable, yet mfs will still defend them…

    • _number8_@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      i love how people are supposed to return to the office just so these fucking ghouls don’t lose their office building parlays

    • solstice@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      I think it’s because of the high risk high reward factor of taking on a ton of leverage which is usually needed for RE. That tends to attract people looking for quick big returns without a ton of work, who are arrogant enough to think they’ll succeed where many others fail (and believe me, plenty do fail).

      The result is that only the most successful ones survive, and since they were arrogant douchebags to begin with, they think they are extra special.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    442·
    10 months ago

    Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group

    Landlord. He’s a landlord.

  • MossBear@lemmy.world
    34·
    10 months ago

    Somewhere out there is a conservative going “they worked hard for what they have and shouldn’t be punished for their success.”

  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    Counterpoint, corporate bankruptcies have to jump to put arrogant Billionaire CEOs in their place.

    There’s always more work that needs doing, but there are only so many CEO positions out there. Hell, the gig economy has shown that the minimal number of people in a “company” is literally 1, so we don’t even need CEOs at all. Seems to me that CEOs should be careful about throwing stones because their house is looking awfully glass-like.

  • Spendrill@lemm.ee
    18·
    10 months ago

    Property developer…

    It’s funny how the mind makes odd connections but for some reason William Burroughs’s ‘Words of Advice for Young People’ springs to mind:

    We don’t like to hear the word “vampire” around here

    We’re trying to improve our public image

    Build up a kindly, avuncular, benevolent image

    “Interdependence” is the keyword, “enlightened interdependence”

    Life in all its rich variety, take a little, leave a little

    However, by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process

    They always take more than they leave…