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...
  • Spendrill@lemm.ee
    112·
    2 years 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 and 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
      41·
      2 years 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^