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."

  • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    37,000 people die for every 1% increase in unemployment

    This is a made up figure from the movie The Big Short, it isn't an actual figure, lmao.

    Also, this is about Australia.

    • gbuttersnaps@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      No, the number comes from a macroeconomics text book written by Gregory Mankiw and its based on research by Harvey Brennan studying the correlation since the 1950s.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You are right it that economics is all fake and made up. However there is a nonzero number of deaths and misery we can attribute to every person being miserable and stressed