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CEO says COVID gave us bad habits, prescribes unemployment of 40-50% (twitter.com)
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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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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A 1% increase is associated with 37000 additional deaths. 40% unemployment would be classicide.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to defend this PoS but I think he means a 40% increase to unemployment, as in if unemployment is at 10% he thinks it should be 14%.

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

US unemployment rate is 3.8% as of August, so this guy is calling for roughly 70k people to die so that he can get back to his power fantasy and his pesky employees will stop having uncomfortable conversations with him about petty grievances like "feeding their families" and "keeping a roof over their head"