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...
  • Spendrill@lemm.ee
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    1 year 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…