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"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. "

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.