@cmkshama: `Luxury property developer and CEO Tim Gurner, who owns nearly a billion dollars in wealth, says: "Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."`

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[–]Xeenophile 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice of him to hit the nail on the head, even from the wrong side, I suppose.

He's not wrong it's a 'place' issue; we live in a society, societies have values (to wish otherwise isn't wrong, it's just impossible, like asking for water without oxygen), and values inevitably means status disparity among individuals who fare better or worse at fulfilling those values.

I've been saying for years that the problem is, 'businessmen have forgotten their place'. They're not geniuses, they're not superior beings, they're bean-counters; macro-mediocrities.

It should go without saying, and it's flabbergasting that it doesn't, that the measure of a man cannot possibly be taken in dollars and cents.

You'd think it would be possible by now to develop software that obsoletizes anybody that stakes its worth on an MBA.

[–]therazorx👹🧹🥇 The road to truth is often messy. 👹📜🕵️🎖️ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

caitlinjohnstone: Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's the funny thing. Marx already won. Everyone is a Marxist whether they realize or not, whether they like it or not.

The only question before each of us is, 'will I use this knowledge to maintain the status quo or to smash it?'

Deal with it.

[–]rundown9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The economic part maybe, not the "cultural" part.

https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1672279455732215809

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The lie the right tells about cultural Marxism was literally the only thing keeping me away from reading it

Their grifting is coming to an end

[–]Matterofprinciple 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ends with "that's why I'm fighting for socialism." 🤮

[–]mzyps 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Workers need, require more discipline. What a surprise! Today must be one of the days of the week, or even one of the months on the calendar!

Oh yeah. Luxury properties, come to think of it that might be the logical complement to the relative supply of affordable housing. Is there enough, not nearly enough? I don't know. I guess it doesn't matter, huh? Does this rich guy know how those things happen? Was he taught in school? It's doesn't involve either market failures or negative externalities, does it? Other things amazingly expensive for the poor and unfortunate among us?

[–]Centaurea 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Workers need, require more discipline. What a surprise! ... Oh yeah. Luxury properties

Did you read either the guy's comments or Johnstone's piece about it? Because that's not at all what either of them said.

Wage discipline =/= imposing discipline on workers in the course of their jobs.

Deliberately creating high unemployment and homelessness as a means of imposing wage discipline =/= imposing discipline on workers in the course of their jobs.

Homelessness =/= the lack of luxury housing.

[–]Death_By_Democracy 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

That guy seems to have some sort of forehead prothesis. Can anyone confirm this?

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That's assuming he's from this planet, but we have no evidence of that

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Working on an automatic battery-powered pitchfork sharpener. Should I use gofundme?

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Should I use gofundme?

Just don't call it the Graymatterzone, should be fine.

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Full tweet, because it gets worse:

Luxury property developer and CEO Tim Gurner, who owns nearly a billion dollars in wealth, says:

"Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around...We've got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy."

Gurner is thoroughly repulsive, but he's not a "bad apple." This is today's reminder as to why capitalism in a rotten system as a whole. A system in which a small elite enriches itself on the labor and suffering of the masses is inherently sociopathic. That's why I'm fighting for socialism.