Property developer and notable millennial avocado toast hater, Tim Gurner, told an interviewer during the Australian Financial Review Summit that there needs to be “pain in the economy” to improve productivity and to remind employees that they are lucky to have employment. So not only does he want to take away your avocado toast but he wants to take away your job, so you might be more grateful for your employer.



According to Gurner, trade laborers have been paid a lot to “do not too much” through the pandemic and there needs to be a worldwide change in labor.


"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,” he says matter-of-factly on stage.


Gurner views the global increase in layoffs, as also demonstrating a decrease in “arrogance” in the job market. Surely this will inspire trade workers to “kill their attitude” and happily work laborious jobs they hate, to build apartments no one can afford, so people can continue eating avocado toast.


The clip has received massive backlash from people worldwide. Funny, when you call for more people to lose their jobs, many people don’t take kindly to that and start calling for your head in a medieval deli slicer.



“When we eventually do get around to eating the rich, that forehead will feed Australia for a year,” responds one Twitter user.