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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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[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 180 points 1 year ago

We need to see guillotining of CEOs jump 40-50%.

[-] ThwaitesAwaits@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Adding 40% to 0 is still 0 - we need to add, like, a million %.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

How about we start with one then try your idea

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate to break it to you, but 1,000,000*0 is still 0. And before you ask, yes so is 1,000,000,000*0

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

OK double it then

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