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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

keep in mind that 37,000 people die for every 1% increase in unemployment. This man is essentially wishing for the deaths of 70,000 americans.

Wait really? How?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Economic instability has been found to increase overall mortality, infant deaths, fatalities from cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis, suicide, and homicide as well as morbidities, alcoholism and admissions to mental hospitals. M Harvey Brenner has publications studying the phenomenon going all the way back to the 50s if you're interested in the scientific literature.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More people unemployed, more people without money, more people being poor. More desperate people, more sick people, more angry people, etc..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

More people wishing to bash your head in for your wallet. Remember, just because you have it good in life it doesn't matter if everyone else is in misery, suffering