Twitter Roasts the Millionaire Who Thinks Workers Have It Too Easy At the Moment

Somewhere along the way, corporations and the rich started to deploy an argument against higher taxes which basically amounted to saying: You can’t raise our taxes, that’s not fair, there should be a compromise. I can’t remember who said it, but the best response I’ve ever heard to that was: ‘Compromise? You want compromise? Look at history and count the number of aristocratic heads that started to hang from spikes every time the rich decided to take a little bit too much from the rest of us. Motherfu**er, taxes are the compromise.’

We’re at such a particular point in history, standing on the threshold (well, past that now) of climate apocalypse, and at this point any sane civilization would be banding together and throwing every resource possible at the problem so as to prevent the worst of the worst coming to pass. But we don’t live in a sane system. We live in capitalism, and the same psychopathic tendencies of that system that got us to the disaster we find ourselves in show not just no signs of abating, but actually seem to be increasing.

You can see this manifested in our beyond parody billionaire class, whose excesses and disastrous effects on the environment, the economy, and everything else are so vast they’re difficult to fully conceptualise. The billionaires are the worst, but the millionaires aren’t far behind them. Social media was bubbling recently in response to a millionaire who, in an unguarded moment, shared his view on the post-pandemic economic situation and how things have changed. You have to love these moments of honesty that strip away the glossy layer and obfuscating language that reveal how the system really works.

Twitter had many thoughts on this man and his opinions (sadly not as many on his appearance, but we always take the high road here, so that’s not something we do either, so I understand):

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." pic.twitter.com/la3ibCDCsp

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 12, 2023

Many people asking why he would say this stuff but there are countless CEOs watching this same video and feeling seen, heard, valid etc. https://t.co/RJH00TrNsl

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 12, 2023

Gurner never would've expected this to go viral worldwide; this was at the Australian Financial Review Property Summit, which never garners much attention. He just accidentally got a little too honest showing off in front of his rich friends and forgot the cameras were rolling. https://t.co/byxFhBXCw3

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) September 12, 2023

The political aspects of full employment https://t.co/HS4FyX5pFG

— Max Jerneck (@MaxJerneck) September 12, 2023

https://t.co/avYlKi251m pic.twitter.com/F925nWmCR5

— Fredda (@PunishedFredda) September 12, 2023

Some of the most evil people in the world are getting more arrogant… pic.twitter.com/aiMbgEoaq5

— David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) September 12, 2023

when marxists say that capitalism, in order to function, literally requires unemployment and homelessness to discipline wages to ensure satisfactory profitability and maintain a useful social domination of the working class don’t take it from us, take it from capitalists: https://t.co/GUmq3pxnid

— the discourse sommelier (@funnierhandle) September 12, 2023

We need to grasp that this dude isn’t some particular aberration within a capitalist system but rather a plain embodiment of its values. Other people exist for his class to use and destroy for personal gain. He stands out mainly by his unusual honesty.pic.twitter.com/3LPsCWFFtH

— Aren R. LeBrun (@proustmalone) September 12, 2023

Timely reminder here of the people who are a genuine threat to the lives and wellbeing of society. (Hint: it is not those in migrant boats). https://t.co/8Zzlokc5yJ

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) September 13, 2023

Chomsky was really poppin off when he said that everything the ruling class communicates in private is just Marxism, but with the values reversed. https://t.co/O48VKQ8vUq

— Jeremy Flood 🌹 (@_Floodlight) September 12, 2023

Couldn't script a better distillation of why capital hates tight labor markets and full employment. Also lol at "Property Summit." https://t.co/U0FjZtEqhT

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 12, 2023

This is class warfare.

It’s just that few of these arrogant wankers actually say it aloud, but what he’s talking about here is a very real and valid part of capitalism—the use of poverty and social murder to ensure workers remain subservient cogs to the capitalist class. https://t.co/4p9CKhmhdH

— Tiberius (@ecomarxi) September 13, 2023

Well you’ve got to give credit to the dude for candidly admitting what everyone else denies: governments are artificially increasing unemployment through monetary/fiscal austerity in order to weaken labour’s bargaining power. Simple as that. Nothing to do with “fighting… https://t.co/ulvahUpcnJ

— Thomas Fazi (@battleforeurope) September 12, 2023

The ruling class is far too comfortable. Listen to this goon tell a business summit how workers now feel like bosses are lucky to have us and say "We've got to kill that attitude."

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— Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll) September 12, 2023

OH MY GOD THIS MFER IS THE AVOCADO TOAST GUY https://t.co/p838hcH5ek pic.twitter.com/7VEGTpehp7

— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) September 12, 2023

Basically a ruling class troll voicing in everyday terms what's normally dressed up in the sanitised language of economics. https://t.co/lSRu3RLmkM

— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) September 13, 2023

This guy's chatting like he's invested everything he has in guillotine futures. https://t.co/Fftt30xsnR

— The author, Séamas O'Reilly (@shockproofbeats) September 12, 2023