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...
  • Hegar@kbin.social
    323·
    10 months ago

    Elites have been saying this well before capitalism. Capitalism sucks, but heirarchy is the problem.

      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        10 months ago

        The French would like to have a word with you?

        Before Capitalism, there was Aristocracy. It sucked. It got corrupt. So we replaced it with something else that sucked and was corrupt.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Is it your belief that ancient Egypt was capitalist, or that the people interred in pyramids were not elites?

        Just curious which of those you think is true.