Which brings me to Australian millionaire Tim Gurner, who went viral for publicly admitting what capitalists really think of workers and how the capitalist economy actually works.
“We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment needs to jump 40-50 percent, in my view.”
- Contra capitalist propaganda, the unemployment rate is not a natural product of demand for labor, but rather a deliberate and intentional result of state policy.
“We need to see pain in the economy.”
- Unemployment exists to discipline labor.
“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.”
- Wage labor is not a mutually beneficial agreement between equal parties with different time preferences. It’s a relationship of command.
“People have decided they didn’t want to work so much anymore…and that has had a massive issue on productivity.”
- Capitalists don’t induce workers to supply labor by offering higher wages; they coerce workers into laboring via threats of homelessness and starvation.
“They have been paid a lot to do not too much…”
- Human beings are not utility-maximizing robots with endless hedonic wants. Intensification is a product of capitalist desires, not something we demanded because we endlessly want more stuff.
Yes, he is a monster. But he is an honest monster! I’d rather face an honest monster than a liar backed by endless armies of bootlickers who imagine Elon Musk will take them to Mars with him.
https://amp.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/multimillionaire-deeply-regrets-unemployment-comments-20230914-p5e4tc.html
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