▲ 522 ▼ CEO says COVID gave us bad habits, prescribes unemployment of 40-50% (twitter.com) submitted 3 years ago by riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml 151 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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."
[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (6 children) You will have to bootstrap it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago (5 children) No, we can just wait for America to fail and let China do it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Yes, let's also outsource the revolution. Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago (3 children) Yeah, eventually. Resources would stay the same. Money is fake. That would have no reason to change anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago (5 children) No, we can just wait for America to fail and let China do it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Yes, let's also outsource the revolution. Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago (3 children) Yeah, eventually. Resources would stay the same. Money is fake. That would have no reason to change anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (4 children) Yes, let's also outsource the revolution. Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago (3 children) Yeah, eventually. Resources would stay the same. Money is fake. That would have no reason to change anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago (3 children) Yeah, eventually. Resources would stay the same. Money is fake. That would have no reason to change anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago Those problems don't help to fix the import problem. permalink fedilink source parent