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These comments are what makes me really cynical about these CEO kind of personalities. They are totally unashamed on talking with absolute conviction about anyt
by ji48520 8y ago
These comments are what makes me really cynical about these CEO kind of personalities. They are totally unashamed on talking with absolute conviction about anything, it doesn't matter at all that they are absolutely ignorant about the subject.
As a person that has lived in Spain for 30 years, Calacanis saying that unemployed people in Spain is turning to rioting and terrorism is just hilarious. ie. people involved in Barcelona attacks were not unemployed, but were students and had low level/low pay jobs[0].
Not only that, talking about Europe as a jobless nightmare, generalizing the unemployment rates of Greece, with a population of just 11 millions to the whole continental Europe is plainly idiotic. There are cities in USA with 17.4% of unemployment, like El Centro, CA [1] and nobody sane would mention them as an example.
By the way, the countries inside Europe that actually made the experiments they are referring to are doing just fine on unemployment statistics. Better than states like Alaska or the District of Columbia by the way[2].
I agree in one subject though, and it's about the panic they show while talking about 20% unemployment. In the USA it would be absolutely catastrophic and would lead to anarchy, no doubt. But not because people would loose their purpose in life, but because people is really determined to survive, and when we are talking about paying gramma's life saver surgery or respect others private property the decision is clear for most people. In Europe, and particularly in Spain, the concept of paying for healthcare is absolutely foreign.
P.D. Sorry about my English, it's not my first language.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Barcelona_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Barcelona_attacks
[1] https://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm https://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/unemployment-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/unemployment-rate