So throwing this out there....we will likely head to our own version of the French revolution. So in true American fashion we should give it a catchy name. I put forward my submission "chopped, blueblood edition"
Wow, talk about lack of self preservation. What do you think happens if 50% of the population has nothing but time on their hands. No food, likely at risk of eviction if not already homeless, but plenty of time? Hell, even 10% is inadvisable.
I mean he's not wrong tho, the cost of labour sky rocketed after the U.S crashed the world economy (no not this time...or that time... i think it was the time before that) and our highly mobile immigrant workforce (E.U, no travel restrictions) had no reason to stay so they all went home and suddenly we were bidding and negotiating timeliness to get builders and mechanics etc
I think in part because of the very effect that CEO types over rely on. There is SOME self balancing in capitalism. At that point labor is going to be over abundant and a lot of people would be lacking things they need, they would start their own ventures to produce things they can't afford to buy from these assholes, and then they end up with new competitors.
I mean wireless hole punchers are everywhere in this nation and unless this guy likes living underground someone will be able to get close enough to him.
"No, see, when orderly society collapses and I pay my private security forces to mow down the unwashed mobs who are threatening me, they'll never question why they shouldn't stop being middlemen and just take my power for themselves!"
And once they're mowed down, who makes the CEO's food? Who washes his car? Who labors for his companies?
People who live the big life on the backs of the "little people" will have problems when there are no little people left to keep them off of the ground level.
Their answer will either be robots or properly cowed and respectful little people. You can't convince them they need anyone else. They're very special boys, you see.
("Because I trust by then my fellow CEOs will have invented explosive collars for our 'guard dogs'. And they'll TOTALLY give me a detonator instead of a collar of my own!")
The more these guys run their mouths, the more I think I need to write a "Billionaires Cook Book" Musky soup, Gurner salsa with fava beans, Altman anchovy paste... it's all coming together now. A feast!!
We need to remind them that they could not make a single dime without us. If every single person simply didn't go to work for one day, it would cripple them, and they know it.
Much easier to be a bartender and slip a little tincture of water hemlock root into their nightcap. Looks like a seizure, takes some time to trigger after dosage. No known antidote other than purgatives if they get to you in time. Rarely tested for, according to wikipedia. You can find it growing in ditches everywhere in the early summer.
50% unemployment ??? Assholes like him end up hanging by their feet from a gas station awning way before that percentage is reached. Do they teach history in America ? I wonder why does he think he would be immune to that.
No, they don't really teach history. They teach propaganda, where America is always right and everyone else was poor and helpless and needed America to "save" them.
A CEO doesn't have to be American to be the whole douchewagon. (It's just easier to do over here.)
I say, if he wants the unemployment numbers up, he should volunteer to be part of them. A bit hypocritical to say you want more unemployment, but remain employed. Yes, yes, I know, hypocrisy is the name of the game, religion, and their whole identity. That will not stop me from pointing it out.
Do not take the side of the oppressor & exploitator, even if they might """technically""" be right in some minor detail. Peoole's righteous anger will not ponder much over the minutiae when it comes to putting you on a list and under the guillotine.
I can't tell if you don't actually know anything about the French Revolution because you're coming out with a "no think, only pitchfork" hot take that you'd have to be fucking stupid to endorse with full knowledge of how that all played out, or if you DO know about the French Revolution because you are insinuating that the bar to end up in line for the guillotine was insanely low and lots of innocent people got killed over basically nothing amidst all the confusion.
Read the room, dude. This evil shitstain who explicitly wants more pain belongs under a guillotine.
If that happens, it will happen under such circumstances where anybody arguing that 'he ackshually didn't want a flat 50% unemployment ratio but a rise of 50% only' will either get to be the warm-up or an afterthought to that spectacle. That's just how things (incl. heads) roll during revolutions.
Regarding your original question - make your pick. I'm just saying what's going to happen.
It actually is catastrophic. This increase of 2.5 percentage points in systemic unemployment. If you are an empathetic leftist, it's ~7 million additional people starving in abject poverty If you are an efficient rightist, that is ~4 million jobs not being done by people who are willing to work, but can't. If you are a sensible centrist, it is ~2 million very angry people with no brain, nothing to lose and surprisingly easy access to guns
And if you are a populist (of all stripes) - fuck you
LittleDragon
Dude lives in Melbourne, Australia. Someone should have a word with him.
xXxX66SICKXxXx
Can somebody dox this guy?
ireallydontthinkso
what we really need to see is CEOs hanging from trees. in a playfull way of course ;)
getadogupya
Everyone should be working towards a better society... but no, not these arseholes.
AnythingMuchShorter
We need CEOs that their wealth comes from their employees work that generates the actual value, not the other way around.
RevTang
Hope this would be enough for any smart person to avoid working for this maniac. Tank him.
sascottsn
Did they fuck up his sliders for forehead size? The fuck is going on here?
TI99Kitty
When they were giving out foreheads, he said "But everybody has a forehead, I deserve more! Give me FIVEhead!
Navrodel
Not enough Luigis
Fiss
Give it time....a-wahooo!
senzykyo3004
So throwing this out there....we will likely head to our own version of the French revolution. So in true American fashion we should give it a catchy name. I put forward my submission "chopped, blueblood edition"
Ivain
Wow, talk about lack of self preservation. What do you think happens if 50% of the population has nothing but time on their hands. No food, likely at risk of eviction if not already homeless, but plenty of time? Hell, even 10% is inadvisable.
Ilikecreativepeople
Geo Corp stock goes through the roof. Why do you think they're building all those for profit "camps"!!!!!
InfocalypseRising
This was a couple years ago and he half-assedly walked it back iirc.
raisedonadrywell
He said what he believes.
Jaqdakloun
Are you fucking stupid?
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
Apropos...
futhor
PostalHeathen
polopolomarkopolopolo
One more for Monsieur Gill O’Teen
Sunflier
PhloydPhan
These people have addresses, they have homes, and they have families. I'm just making an observation.
CallieOpal
"Families" might be crossing a line there mate. Let's not turn into them.
Mpisinchanga
Who said anything about hurting them? They can join in, too. I mean look at Vivian.
TheVillageGrouch9000
SubtleOrc
Whoisthisdoctorwho2000
I mean he's not wrong tho, the cost of labour sky rocketed after the U.S crashed the world economy (no not this time...or that time... i think it was the time before that) and our highly mobile immigrant workforce (E.U, no travel restrictions) had no reason to stay so they all went home and suddenly we were bidding and negotiating timeliness to get builders and mechanics etc
bourbonandbaddecisions
BearcatFan
I have a degree in economics and this is deeply stupid. The worst unemployment was during the Great Depression was 25. This guy is so stupid
CocaineAndSelfPleasure
Another user above noted that they said “jump” as a modifier. So 50% more of the existing rate.
AnythingMuchShorter
I think in part because of the very effect that CEO types over rely on. There is SOME self balancing in capitalism. At that point labor is going to be over abundant and a lot of people would be lacking things they need, they would start their own ventures to produce things they can't afford to buy from these assholes, and then they end up with new competitors.
nanomaus
Upvotes, hearts, likes and so forth have very little in the way of nutrients in them. I can't eat a retweet.
tafoyGiraffePrincess
yesdearmetoo
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SleepyHollowAppleTree
I don't think you want that to happen dude, guillotines and torches aren't that complicated to make.
DukePhelan
I mean wireless hole punchers are everywhere in this nation and unless this guy likes living underground someone will be able to get close enough to him.
AnythingMuchShorter
And with that kind of unemployment you'd have a lot of people with a lot of time to make them.
sleepinggreenidea
"No, see, when orderly society collapses and I pay my private security forces to mow down the unwashed mobs who are threatening me, they'll never question why they shouldn't stop being middlemen and just take my power for themselves!"
DukeDarkwood
And once they're mowed down, who makes the CEO's food? Who washes his car? Who labors for his companies?
People who live the big life on the backs of the "little people" will have problems when there are no little people left to keep them off of the ground level.
sleepinggreenidea
Their answer will either be robots or properly cowed and respectful little people. You can't convince them they need anyone else. They're very special boys, you see.
DukeDarkwood
Yes, yes, because I'm sure they're expert robot mechanics. *scoff*
No, their fragile house of cards will always fall once they burn the bottom rows of cards. Their disavowing of that fact doesn't make it go away.
sleepinggreenidea
("Because I trust by then my fellow CEOs will have invented explosive collars for our 'guard dogs'. And they'll TOTALLY give me a detonator instead of a collar of my own!")
LollieCom
The more these guys run their mouths, the more I think I need to write a "Billionaires Cook Book"
Musky soup, Gurner salsa with fava beans, Altman anchovy paste... it's all coming together now. A feast!!
TheDoctorCrankenstein
FaeVikingPrincess
ew, I wouldn't make Elon into a soup. He's clearly a blanch and sear kind of billionaire.
TI99Kitty
He's more like the shit that I cut off and give to the dogs.
FaeVikingPrincess
Why do you hate the dogs?
TI99Kitty
+1
Davedavedavedavedave
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Zixtank
Too quick. Rope allows for a longer period of listening to the cheers.
DirigibleOtter
Sometimes we sharpen it. Sometimes not.
YouRadicalizedMe
Off with his fucking head!
SlyMrFox
Behold! A traitor's head!
JayDeeDubs
We need to remind CEOs that they are edible and flammable
jammer909
In that order? I don't want any parasites.
HeywouldJablowme
We need to remind them that they could not make a single dime without us. If every single person simply didn't go to work for one day, it would cripple them, and they know it.
torisenblack
This really shows how stupid he is, too.
History will show you many times over that people like him dont want numbers like that, bloody things happen.
walnutbreath
Preferably in that order!
bullestock
And kirkable
teh0khardic
And not bulletproof
TrilithonStone
Soluble, too...
conjuratio
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brownribbon
And their bones are very, very breakable
SavageDrums
And that nobody will miss them when they are set on fire and eaten.
RooGryphon
i don like long pig
PathologicalLier
What about soylent green?
whywritemythesiswhenihaveinternet
Much easier to be a bartender and slip a little tincture of water hemlock root into their nightcap. Looks like a seizure, takes some time to trigger after dosage. No known antidote other than purgatives if they get to you in time. Rarely tested for, according to wikipedia. You can find it growing in ditches everywhere in the early summer.
d4m4s74
If it's not visible and brutal it doesn't work
criticalmassdriver
There is scaphism letting them die of sores from being trapped in their own excrement and being devoured by bugs.
Darkspire
This. They cheerfully accepted unions after enough of them were dragged out of their houses and beaten to death.
NM156
Seeing the guillotine pic below... and divisible!
Starlatan
2÷1=2
wj170499
Too chewy. Marinate first.
whoatherebigfella
You’d be surprised how well baking soda works to tenderize.
wj170499
Great idea! I usually use a sledge hammer. More effective but messy. 😉🤪
BeaverOnFire
Slow cooking is key.
Twogene
Cronchy and good with ketchup
ItsaBeemer
50% unemployment ??? Assholes like him end up hanging by their feet from a gas station awning way before that percentage is reached. Do they teach history in America ? I wonder why does he think he would be immune to that.
zHurk777
He wants 50% unemployment because that would mean Black Americans would be 75%+ unemployed.
unluckyandbored
No, they don't really teach history. They teach propaganda, where America is always right and everyone else was poor and helpless and needed America to "save" them.
Noogys
he's Australian...
DukeDarkwood
A CEO doesn't have to be American to be the whole douchewagon. (It's just easier to do over here.)
I say, if he wants the unemployment numbers up, he should volunteer to be part of them. A bit hypocritical to say you want more unemployment, but remain employed. Yes, yes, I know, hypocrisy is the name of the game, religion, and their whole identity. That will not stop me from pointing it out.
B4r4B4d4B45tu
Tie him up to a gympie tree
Noogys
yooooooo that's a good idea
Assbandit
Release the dropbears!
test8106
If the quote is correct, he said "jump 50%", not "jump to 50%". For example, if employment were 4%, he wants a 50% increase to 6%.
Margrave9000
Do not take the side of the oppressor & exploitator, even if they might """technically""" be right in some minor detail.
Peoole's righteous anger will not ponder much over the minutiae when it comes to putting you on a list and under the guillotine.
Blud4BludGod
I can't tell if you don't actually know anything about the French Revolution because you're coming out with a "no think, only pitchfork" hot take that you'd have to be fucking stupid to endorse with full knowledge of how that all played out, or if you DO know about the French Revolution because you are insinuating that the bar to end up in line for the guillotine was insanely low and lots of innocent people got killed over basically nothing amidst all the confusion.
Margrave9000
Read the room, dude. This evil shitstain who explicitly wants more pain belongs under a guillotine.
If that happens, it will happen under such circumstances where anybody arguing that 'he ackshually didn't want a flat 50% unemployment ratio but a rise of 50% only' will either get to be the warm-up or an afterthought to that spectacle. That's just how things (incl. heads) roll during revolutions.
Regarding your original question - make your pick. I'm just saying what's going to happen.
ItsaBeemer
Yeah, my bad. I was going with 7.5%, It's not good but it's not catastrophic.
Margrave9000
Do not hold yourself back when you're bashing the fash. We need all the rage and then some.
This one wants to cause pain to workers - and that's what matters once the guillotines are up'n'choppin'.
sherlockhooves
It actually is catastrophic. Remember Obama inherited an unemployment of over 8% from Bush jr. And that's the financial crisis of the 00's
onepinksheep
It's catastrophic to those who lose their jobs. The problem with statistics is that it loses the human element.
drhorseturd
The true rate of unemployment is almost 25% right now
VladimirsKacs
It actually is catastrophic. This increase of 2.5 percentage points in systemic unemployment.
If you are an empathetic leftist, it's ~7 million additional people starving in abject poverty
If you are an efficient rightist, that is ~4 million jobs not being done by people who are willing to work, but can't.
If you are a sensible centrist, it is ~2 million very angry people with no brain, nothing to lose and surprisingly easy access to guns
And if you are a populist (of all stripes) - fuck you