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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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[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If coops are more capital efficient and the proletariat definitionally doesn't own capital that means...

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no amount of efficiency that is more important than momentum. Consider the robber barons. I could make a perfectly effective business but they could just bribe a senator to get a tax cut and beat me. The market can only evaluate one data set and lying cheating and stealing all fall outside the scope of that.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

What does that mean? That managing a successful revolution is easier than managing coops?

Why is it important that the proletariat owns capital? Deconstruct your requirements and find a way to achieve your goals. If you try to achieve something that people want then there is a way to get it.