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...
  • Hegar@kbin.social
    881·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
      1 year 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.