Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: “We need to see unemployment rise. 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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    1 year ago

    So I guess that means corporations are actually hoping for a recession so they can “tighten the belt” and fire some workers and the remaining ones will work extra hard to make up the difference. Again.

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      And swoop in to buy all the assets of soon-to-be bankrupt small-business owners. Big capital does not give a single fuck about who it cannibalises and it will come for those who sing the praises of capitalism as much as those who hate it.