Tim Gurner, a property developer and founder of The Gurner Group, said Tuesday that he wants to see unemployment rise because employees have become arrogant since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,” said Gurner, whose net worth is over half a billion dollars. The rest of his commentary follows a similar trend.
“I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID, and that has had a massive issue on productivity,” he continued, noting that people “have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change.”
No, seriously. He literally said that, and a bunch of other crazy crap. Check it out:
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become “arrogant” since COVID and “We’ve got to kill that attitude.” https://t.co/lcX3CCxGuj pic.twitter.com/f9HK2YZRRE
— Financial Review (@FinancialReview) September 12, 2023
Here is a very quick, massively oversimplified social history lesson for all y’all who didn’t ask for it: the way we live right now is stupid, and there’s a reason our ancestors never bothered to develop lifestyles that revolve around work. The main reason is that all of us need far, far less to live a happy a life.
We don’t actually need cell phones, the newest fashion trends, or any of the shit foisted upon us through consumerism (i.e.: the crap people like Gurner make, presumably). We need a meal or two a day, a loving family and our health. That’s all.
But there was a unique group of individuals — not naming names *cough* JP Morgan *cough* the Rockefellers — who realized they could get super rich by normalizing a 40-hour work week that took women away from their children, and forced all of us to lose the knowledge and skills to survive and thrive in unity with the natural world.
These changes came during the Industrial Revolution and start of the 20th century. And finally, we’re breaking free from that tyranny (those of us who want to, anyway). (RELATED: You’re Not Poor. You’re Financially Illiterate, And That’s Your Fault)
Don’t get me wrong, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street still want all of us to “own nothing and be happy” living under the rule of some unelected globalist organization, but people are fighting back. We realize we didn’t vote for this. We didn’t ask for it. And we’re watching the people who created our status quo utterly fuck up the world, eradicating all sense of trust we may have once had in them.
So … bummer for you, Tim, ya slicked-back Bond-villain-looking alien person, We The People don’t want to be slaves to a globalist orthodoxy that doesn’t work for us. Your statements are a cringe joke, and I hope your employees all choose unemployment over you and your horrific personality, so you realize that you are absolutely nothing without them.