I hope this isn’t a bannable comment, but someone needs to bring out the fucking guillotine for these fucks.
We should indeed have more unemployed people, since we should strive to a world where nobody has to work anymore.
Implement Universal Basic Income.
Or we could just get rid of money and everyone gets what they need? Like, money is just something we made up.
Good luck getting anyone means to give up something without getting something.
I’m pretty sure if you got rid of money people would immediately reinvent it.
I hate cleaning and I pay someone to do it for me. What am I going to do? Barter?
The problem isn’t money it’s lack of worker protections and consolidation of power.
Welcome to North Korea!
UBI with capitalist relations of production is simply not sustainable.
Where would UBI come from if nobody is working?
Automated production.
It is easier to see the extinction of humanity than the end of capitalism. But if we cannot imagine the end of capitalism we will see the extinction of humanity.
Eventually, though (as Sophie From Mars speculates) the population will be reduced to where the USD and EU are meaningless, and the remaining bands act more like mutual aid.
The question is if humanity has been reduced by then to tens of millions, or thousands.
UBI in imperialist countries comes from the global south people labour.
“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.
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.
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.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
–Robert A. Heinlein
I hope he loses everything he has, and if he doesn’t, I hope people steal what’s left.
Any consequences! Exactly that. I’m sick of this rich man culture of fuck you I got mine. There needs to be a systematic change where the rich feel that they are extremely lucky to be allowed to horde so much and keep there heads. They’ve grown lazy and arrogant. Consequences for your selfish actions!
Stock market needs to go down to put arrogant Billionaire in their place.
that hurts a lot more people than just billionaires
So does the unemployment rate going up.
But at least it hurts billionaires, which the whole world can cheer about.
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The ruling class has clearly shown that the economy and the stock market are not as interconnected as they have been in the past. The markets are terribly inflated, it NEEDS to go down, or the eventual crash is going to be 1920’s bad.
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.
Can we bring out the guillotines already? Serious.
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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.
The “left” is anti-violence and law-abiding. Our primary act is bringing out old phrases like, “eat the rich.”
We’re not even hearing of acts of vandalism or sabotage, but we want them to be scared.
Right now, if they don’t get their way, unquestioning and at cheap rates, they are oppressed.
This is where we are. I agree, they need checked. Unions are getting stronger again (at last). But that’s all I’m seeing. I hope I’m missing something.
Arrogant billionaire complains about having to operate in a free market. Oh the irony…
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.
Someone should unemploy him, you know, to help his numbers.
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Laughter is the best medicine?
Should be un something for sure.
Unemployment is a luxury that the rich can afford more of.
Pierre
Get the guillotineas we know… good billionaire is dead billionaire
I really do think it’s time to break out the guillotines.
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.
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
We never should have accepted such a monstrous Faustian deal in the first place.
