AOC takes aim at multimillionaire Australian property developer who wants unemployment to jump

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that CEO pay had skyrocketed, in response to Tim Gurner's claim workers had become arrogant' since Covid

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A multimillionaire Australian property developer who suggested the country increase the unemployment rate by 40% to 50% to create more productive workers has drawn a fierce reaction from the US democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Reminder that major CEOs have skyrocketed their own pay so much that the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay is now at some of the highest levels *ever* recorded," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter/X, after a video of Tim Gurner's comments were circulated online.