He is free to stop hiring if he thinks that way. If unemployment jumps it's because business is in the shitter.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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least insane liberal: "yes we should intentionally ensure a significant proportion of our working age population is rendered destitute, desperate, and useless. This is good for society"
this is why liberalism is a losing ideology: imagine intentionally not utilizing all of your available productive forces so some bourgeois parasites can further fatten themselves off the suffering of your citizenry.
If you really want to increase labor productivity: achieve full employment and liquidate the unproductive capitalist class instead 
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Wow that guy looks like a creep
Who's taking bets on how long until this guy's head is left in a box for another billionaire to open?
What's in the box, Elon?
He is a fucking Property Developer. That is the definition of someone who doesn’t actually do any real work.
Engineering manager here: I am very lucky to have my team, I need them more than they need me, and I think anyone saying otherwise is fooling themselves.
No, that's completely wrong.
He said it should go UP by 40-50% ie about 6% - which is still low by Australian standards.
Unemployment averaged 8% in the 1980s and 10% in the 1990s.
I'd rather people not suffer personally.
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I don't know what parallel universe this idiot is living in but nothing has changed over here. People know they work for an employer, we sure as hell know the employer doesn't give a rat's arse about their employees, we'd like them to, but we know they don't.
What's he on about?
Anyway he's a property developer so I think that perhaps his opinion is somewhat biased, and therefore should be ignored.
Big Fight Club moment.
Or maybe it’s really just time to eat the rich?
If unemployment hits 40%, there would actually be a revolution (lib, fash, or real). Even this bozo gotta know that. Like, HALF of everyone who wants to work being out of work??? It would be society rending. The Great Depression "only" hit 25%. 40-50% would be actually insane.
So... critical support to Tim Gurner thought?
Yeah, let's see how many of these guys survive when unemployment is at 50% and people are starving and desperate.
"Eat the rich" will become a much more literal rallying cry.
I wonder if he's said shitty things between this and avocado toast. Someone should find out, I'm sure it's full of naked class interest
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While the guy is an asshole, your title is grade A bullshit and a warping of his actual words.
He said a jump of 40-50%, meaning that if there's 5% unemployment, he wants to push it to 7,5%.
His whole talk is horrible and disgusting enough without you misrepresenting it.
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He's in luck. The [b]ankers started trying to make it happen earlier this year: https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2023/feb/09/the-reserve-bank-wants-unemployment-to-rise-it-should-be-careful-what-it-wishes-for