Who has become too arrogant?
We must grind the faces of the poor.
Property developer Tim Gurner says employees have become too arrogant, and that unemployment must rise substantially to lift productivity, especially in the construction sector.
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“They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change,” he told the AFR property summit in Sydney. “I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID.”
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“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. It’s a dynamic that has to change.”
We need to starve people. We need to throw them onto the streets and starve them when they get there. We need to round them up and put them to work whether they like it or not.
Worked for Reagan. And the people loved him for that (well, some of them, but enough to make him a “hero”).
Jesus, does this guy think he’s another species or something? Does he think he’s going to live forever, and that he won’t be spending his last days gasping for breath, helpless, bedridden, and completely dependent on the lazy, low-life freeloaders who’ll be feeding him mush and wiping his ass?
Are we sure this guy isn’t an agent provocateur planted to make capitalism look even worse? Who knew that the brave captains of industry were all commanding U-boats, issuing orders to kill the survivors in the water?
Every accusation is a confession, right? I hope he practiced this part in front of a mirror. Not that he would have seen any reflection looking back at him.
Oh, you have no idea. Pain is coming, just not the kind you can wring much profit and advantage out of; though you’ll try. Fire. Flood. Famine. Your wealth will insulate you for a moment longer than most of us, like wearing thicker soled shoes while we all run across across a lake of lava, but you’re in it with the rest of us.
I think convection would kill everyone before sole thickness was a help but vivid imagery taken…
Ideally labor is an exchange for value, usually money and health insurance. Not sure where he got the idea that an employment relationship implies ownership of the hearts and souls of the workers. As I was said in a previous post, communism doesn’t spring up out of a vacuum.
I think this guy should avoid the company cafeteria, as he may end up swallowing somone else’s gobs of saliva.
I once applied at Hertz. I was desperate for work, but when they told me to quit school and plan to be available whenever they called, I thought twice. When they told me they would own me, I left. I found a better job (not great, but better).
My most recent employer felt we should be available 24/7 for our students. My sister got in dutch for refusing to answer her phone when a student called at 2:00 in the morning.
I presume our current capitalist, the one we are dissecting under a microscope, got his ideas in the same place they got theirs.
The hell you say. You’ve had that lie all your own way for hundreds of years. What had to change was the notion that all the value lies in the capitalist owners, when in fact the value lies in the production of actual goods and services, which is fundamentally attributable to the labor of human beings, not disposable, fungible, cogs. Get real.
Well yeah, you want machines? Build them! (Please do!) Until then, recognize that market forces don’t favor you at the moment. *That* is how the free market works.