"Unemployment has to jump 40-50%. We need some pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. "

    • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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      Google “The Reserve Army of Labour”. Capitalists intentionally want some degree of unemployment to make workers more desperate for lowe wages and easier to replace.

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      The ones who don’t like taxable income, poor and desperate population, crime increase and decrease in the general economy due to less spending. So no-one

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        1 year ago

        I think you misspelled “conservatives” because that’s exactly what their platforms do.

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          The Fed, which is unelected and nonpartisan, has been trying to increase unemployment for a while