An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.The Australian Financial Review reports that Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, exp...
  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    119·
    10 months ago

    He actually says they (the rich owners) need to “hurt the economy”. Economic terrorist.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      716·
      10 months ago

      We toppled Saddam because he wanted to ditch the dollar. I don’t think this fuckstick or Elon Marshmallow man have the same level entourage.

      All the Russian oligarchs what is like to have all your assets seized, and just me tell ya, Id suffocate from laughter before I ever gave one fuck about the obscenely rich.

      I’m ready to Make America Great Again, by taxing any and all assets over 10million, annually, at 75%. The squeaky wheel gets it raised to 85% Back in the oft romanticized golden days the upper tax rate was 90%

      Maybe I’m alone in this opinion but I don’t think someone should be able to have one idea that sells and then never have to work again. Like, if we all worked 4 hrs a week then fine, but nowadays, with modern tax chattle slavery? Naw man. Edison, Tesla, those guys had to keep inventing. Mr Mypillow can go die under an overpass.

      Fuck billionaires. We need a special forces team for the IRS, they can jump from helicopters with their calculator’s ribbon.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
        191·
        10 months ago

        This was gold to read.

        I agree. Amassing such volume of wealth that a single individual jas more wealth than many sovereign nations put together is ludicrous.

        I’m not against a person making money for their work and ideas but to the point where they can take other companies from business out of spite and mess with the entire economy for sport?

        I like to say I don’t mind paying taxes. In my country it buys me services and civilization, regardless being far from perfect. If I made a million a year, I could not spend it. I can’t imagine what it takes to spend a million.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        Edison has more in common with billionaires than with inventors.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        62·
        10 months ago

        We toppled Saddam because he wanted to ditch the dollar

        Lmao imagine thinking we went to war in Iraq over Saddam wanting to be poor.

        • Spendrill@lemm.ee
          92·
          10 months ago

          tax chattle slavery

          I’m guessing the concept is that we are farmed as cattle because we consume and then the money we earn that pays for our food on shelter all gets funnelled upwards to billionaires and as an added bonus we pay taxes to pay for a government which serves the billionaires’ interests not ours.

          It is notable that we all talk about being part of national economies now whereas we used to talk about being a part of society.

          • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            It is notable that we all talk about being part of national economies now whereas we used to talk about being a part of society.

            This ^

            louder for those in the back:

            THIS^

      • BritishJ@lemmy.world
        113·
        10 months ago

        75% on 10M is 7.5M. This is how you get people to end up paying $0, because that rate is far to high. Its like saying for every $1 you earn, you will get $0.25C. Yeah you wouldn’t be happy with that.

        30% of 10M is better than 0% of 10M. If I had that money and they wanted to charge me 75% tax, I would rather pay a smart accountant 1M and get to keep 9M.