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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

Guys, come on, this was back in 2023, little Timmy was soooo sowwwyyy about what he said!

But later, Mr Gurner said in a post on LinkedIn that he had "made some remarks about unemployment and productivity in Australia that I deeply regret and were wrong".

See? He's super duper full of empathy and totally not doing damage control for saying things actually believe in!

Mr Gurner also previously made controversial comments criticising young home buyers for their spending habits, saying in 2017 that when he was saving for his first home, he "wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each".

Oh, uh... Teehee?

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 16 hours ago

Yo, fuck this asshole in particular

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Perhaps a phrase that would be welcome coming from your dominatrix.

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Is this supposed to be an insult? Are you really white knighting for that POS?

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Lol, no, i interpreted OP at least as saying that phrase is really only a nice thing to hear in that context.

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Well ok, as long as we agree: fuck this guy

[-] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 36 points 17 hours ago

We are supposed to work for each other, with each other. The owning class are parasites, feeding from the labor of the masses, and they get most of what we produce. Without us they are literally nothing. If all billionaires disappeared tomorrow, infrastructure would not break down, because it is us who maintain it. We grow the crops, we heal the sick, etc…

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

After a rash of breakins, amongst calls to do something about it, we reached out to known home invader Butch Stealsalot for his opinion, Butch? "Thanks Tina. Actually, I think we should be seeing more breakins, honestly. These teach us to be extra vigilant at all times, never leave our valuables exposed, and at the end of the day, drives capitalism forward. The apparatus that we pay for, insurance, can activate and replace the cataloged items missing, thus keeping the flow of goods in a healthy space. These robbers are actually providing a major service to the country. Thank you." Well there you have it folks, from the mouth of the expert on the matter. A little inconvenience goes a long way!

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 26 points 18 hours ago
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 30 points 18 hours ago

This guy is saying out loud what they've been saying behind our backs at their club.

Make no mistake, this corporate giddiness over AI is all about ONE thing: Replacing as many pesky human workers with AI/Robotics/Automation as possible. Within five years, unemployment rates of under 5% will be an old memory. Double digit unemployment rates will be accepted as normal. Millions of people will be unemployed, and desperate.

Then they will start criminalizing being poor. Too much debt, unemployed, need food or housing assistance? All of that will be illegal. If you require help from the government, you will have to work it off. You will stay in the detainment centers that were built for the illegal immigrants, and are now available, since most of them have been rounded up. Now they can hold illegal poor American citizens.

Those in the camps will be leased out to American corporations under the 13th Amendment, allowing prisoners to be forced to perform slave labor, to cover the few jobs that humans are required to do, that haven't been replaced by AI or robots. Those that resist, will be sent to the new facility being built in Guantanamo Bay, that will hold 30,000 of the most uncooperative. It will be America's CECOT.

And of course, using slave labor means even fewer good paying jobs for humans, rendering even more of them unemployed, and now illegal. The next stage will occur when there are more slave laborers than work for them, most jobs have been replaced by automation, and there are only limited human jobs left. What happens to all those surplus slave laborers, who don't have a use, and are eating, reproducing, getting sick, attempting to escape, etc.?

Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants to reduce America's population to 100 million, which is about a 70% reduction. Who do you propose that he's going to eliminate, and how do you suppose he intends to do that?

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 15 points 17 hours ago

Tim Gurner is an Australian businessman. Could some Australians reel in their crazy? Thanks.

[-] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 7 points 16 hours ago

laughs in rupert murdoch

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

The part I don’t understand is where do they think there wealth comes from? It comes from the middle class buying things. That always has been and always will be the entire engine behind the economy. Without that, the entire system breaks down. With 50% unemployment, it’s gonna look more like MadMax or The Walking Dead. I don’t care how big these mother fuckers build their bunkers, they will only last so long. We out number them a million to 1.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

They almost excluively rely on games gambling systems like stocks and crypto now.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

That doesnt generate wealth. That launders wealth to avoid taxes.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

They don't care, they just want to make the poor lose everything to them so their petty egos can inflate in their "superiority"

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

It magically appears out of the aether that is the stock market. They can make it appear faster if they squeeze those beneath them. Lower wages, lower retirement funding, unbundling, rent extraction, squatting, more expensive benefits, etc.

They don’t actually have to do the work of creating anything new. Just find ways to offer as little as possible and take as much as they can.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago

The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 18 hours ago

Oh, put this guy's name right on The List.

[-] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 19 hours ago
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 18 hours ago

That looks too shiny and new. It should be rougher. It needs to take 3 or 4 chops to get the job done.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 points 14 hours ago

Sure I get your idea, but have you missed the number in line queueing?

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

We should invest in 3 or 4 units, and we can be chopping on one, cleaning up another, and staging the others. Just keep them rotating.

The chopping will be steady enough to keep the crowd cheering.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 points 20 hours ago

I didn't know biofuel could talk. Just needs to ferment well first, to power the burner.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 150 points 1 day ago

Oh Tim, you really don't understand what will happen to you if unemployment hits 50%.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 51 points 1 day ago

No, increase by 50%, not to.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 17 points 20 hours ago

I think he needs to know he breaths because the masses allow it. In this case to they're too busy

[-] Etzello@midwest.social 27 points 1 day ago

From 5% to 7.5%

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 122 points 1 day ago

When I'm in a "deserving to die" competition and my opponent is this dude

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 points 20 hours ago

It is hard to believe someone could be this terrible, but apparently he has a track record of saying stupid shit like this.

Him saying that all the world's countries working towards a rise in unemployment is also factually wrong. My country has record low unemployment, but maybe that doesn't count since I live in a country that generally tries to invest in its population, and not pillage it.

[-] lmdnw@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago

We need the kidnappings and murders of executives and management of the early 1900s. We need labor riots and extreme property damage so that we remind management that we outnumber them and have guns.

I would love to help out with this.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 18 hours ago

With each passing day, it seems more and more likely that you will get your chance.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 74 points 1 day ago

He has such a guillotinable head.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 points 20 hours ago

And a kirkable neck

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago

Yea, dude has a lot of neck to be talking like that.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With such a long neck we need to make it harder in the name of playing fair; A dull and rusty blade with a jagged edge. Preferably one that requires multiple chops to actually decapitate.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

We need to see class consciousness rise among the workers until we are all comrades in arms. We need to see revolution in the streets. We need to remind the capitalists that without the will of the workers the gears of society do not move however without the capitalists we are free.

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 day ago

I want to work with this guy. In close proximity. Alone. I'd love to have some one on one time with this amazing thought leader. Just me and him in a soundproof room.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 32 points 1 day ago

I could not be in the same room as this guy knowingly and not assault him. He deserves his nuts individually torsioned

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

There is a certain subset of people whose continued existence is a testament to the fundamental nonviolence of the human species. People who, by all rights, should have been violently killed a long time ago, based on their horrendous personalities and actions, but when you come right down to it, the vast majority of people aren't murderers, and so they just keep skating by on the decency and pro-community tendencies of humanity.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

I could say this about many people. If they are within my range, I WILL dismember them. No way you can be cool with Hitler.

[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 22 points 1 day ago

They need to meet the friendly neighbor Luigi.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Ok, Timmy, we can do that if you want. You first.

It's shit like this that makes me question that "psychopaths aren't real" article

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 18 hours ago

I don't need some obviously wrong article. I've met psychopaths, I KNOW they're real.

[-] Syndication@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

Bro ran outta room for all his greed that he needed to store it all in his forehead

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Insanely large forehead and top of the head. My gosh.

[-] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

I wonder what those 50% of people who don't have work to go to would do with their time.

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