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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Someone should unemploy him, you know, to help his numbers.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Should be un something for sure.

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[–] OGKludge@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the face...

Repeatedly...

With a brick!

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view. 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

What a fucking asshole! True "we need to show those uppity peasant who's boss" energy 🤬

[–] NoNotLikeThat@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sounds like he's mad he can't afford as many yachts.

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[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Employee and employer work TOGETHER. I would love to meet this guy in person, real let them eat cake energy. Anyway, where's my guillotine sharpener.?

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The thing is, the workers work for money, not for the employer.

The employer is just a middleman that can easily be replaced.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

When we have nothing to lose, then we have no problem eating the billionaires.

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[–] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i think this guys face should meet a crowbar

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a weird way to spell guillotine

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[–] SighBapanada@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It looks like it already has

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago

I hope this isn't a bannable comment, but someone needs to bring out the fucking guillotine for these fucks.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 years ago (8 children)

We should indeed have more unemployed people, since we should strive to a world where nobody has to work anymore.

Implement Universal Basic Income.

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Unemployment needs to jump 40-50%??? Is this guy seriously that utterly disconnected with reality? In Aus it’s never hit more than 12% in the last 4 decades, the economy would just collapse if unemployment got that high. It only got to 32% during the Great Depression in the US.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago

That's the difference between percentage and percentage points. If the unemployment rate were 5% then a 50% increase would make it 7.5%

An increase of 50 percentage points would make it 55%

[–] correcthorsedickbatterystaple@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

utterly disconnected with reality

is there another way to accumulate that amount of wealth?

having said that, if unemployment is 10% and he thinks it needs to jump (and not to be 50%) then unemployment would be at 15%

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[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 years ago

This is the original "stop eating smashed avocado on toast" guy.

This guy need to improve the planet by being a lot less alive.

About 100% less should do the trick.

I live in his city and I will not hesitate to tip my $6.50 latte over his narcissistic noggin, should the opportunity arise.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

The guillotine building industry has to jump to put these corporate dirtbags in their place

[–] vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Stock market needs to go down to put arrogant Billionaire in their place.

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[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

You love to see it.

Also, lots of comments about guillotines here. We might get some concern trolls about that, but at the very least, it sure is a problem when a billionaire like Tim feels like he can say something so outrageous without any consequences.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Funny thing that we witnessed in Iran: Violence is not the answer until the very hour it is.

Law enforcement in Georgia are attacking mutual aid stations. They're recognizing and harassing the non-violent methods we would affect change.

And the billionaires are telling us they'd have us starve if we refuse to live as bonded servants.

This is how civil wars start.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 2 years ago

People become violent when they no options for anything. The Syrian Civil War is a prefect example of this, in the lead up the civil war, there was economic polices that benefited a select few people, intense drought that drove food prices up for the common people, and a lack of way to show anger in a healthy democratic way (strikes, protests, etc.), lead to a lot of anger. The anger eventually exploded causing a civil war.

Right now, we all have a cost of living crisis ongoing, lack of political leadership to resolve these issues, and growing wealth inequality. The next global recession is going to have lot of angry people, who's only options are going to be die a slow death or do something and maybe die a slow death.

When it happens remember to direct your anger at the right groups of people, political leaders who championed the status quo for corporations and billionaires, talking heads who tell us to be "grateful", and corporations and billionaires focused on wealth hoarding. These people got us into this mess and will gladly leave all of us to sink if it means they get to keep their dirty hands on power.

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[–] SwedishFool@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I hope he loses everything he has, and if he doesn't, I hope people steal what's left.

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[–] barttier@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rich people are loosing the fear of workers that was deeply ingrained in their DNA by the french. They should be afraid again. Maybe pinata economy is the most logic way to go.

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[–] keeb420@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

i hate these greedflation causing piece of shits. complete and total arrogance. admiral klancy said it best

[–] wokehobbit@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can we bring out the guillotines already? Serious.

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[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Unemployed Aussies should show up at his house.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Billionaire has to jump....

Off a cliff

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[–] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

Lol. I actually read the article and it's Tim fucking Gurner.

I've got friends who work as consultants for his projects and it's more of a "do as I say" relationship. He buys up properties and then turns them into "luxury" apartments or hotels for his rich mates.

He's part of our affordable housing crisis.

And he goes on to make this statement. Good grief.

[–] vrojak@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

Pierre
Get the guillotine

[–] pizzahoe@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

These retarded rich fucks don't really understand that the only reason society is not killing them yet is because many people have a shitty job which can at least feed them. You take that away and motherfucker hungry people will revolt.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But if you consider the counter-argument, maybe arrogant billionaires need to be reminded again that the deal by which they wouldn't be dragged out of their homes and beaten senseless in front of their families was that they'd pay a living wage and deal with unions and submit to antitrust regulations

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[–] HansSlonzok@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

as we know... good billionaire is dead billionaire

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Another parasite sucking up all of our resources for itself.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We should seize all his shit

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

As much as I bitch about Lemmy, I am glad to be on a platform where we can openly advocate to put the aristocracy in guillotines without getting banned or otherwise punished for it.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago

Ok, lets start by labelling CEO's who don't do shit as "unemployed".

Next is every billionaire that don't pay the taxes they are owed.

[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Let's eat him first.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 12 points 2 years ago

The cruelty is the point.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I'm putting in a proportional amount of effort for my pay compared to what my CEO does for his pay. Seems fair to me.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Some CEOs deserve to be fired... out of a cannon... at a brick wall... covered in large spikes.

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