Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place
Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place
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...
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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."
Gurner then predicted that enacting massive layoffs would lead to "less arrogance in the employment market."
I'm a fairly unapologetic capitalist and think overall it's a pretty good model. But that might be the most staggering out of touch arrogant opinion I've ever read and that's REALLY saying something. Not everyone wants their own business (I sure don't). And businesses need employees to do their thing. It's a symbiotic relationship. How can he not see that?
Seems like you’re the one who is more out of touch to be honest…
Billionaires REALLY understand how things work. They have class consciousness. They know it’s us against them.
Lemmy is such a confusing place. People yell at you and downvote for expressing just about any opinion, any direction. Guess I'll go fuck myself then.