Comment on YSK: Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure taxes, company profit and land rent are much bigger numbers by many orders of magnitude.

  No doubt about that, and you’ll get no arguments from me against that.

  This wage theft narrative normalises capitalism while quibbling over a relatively small amount.

  Yeah, I can see your point. The reason I present it is because there are lots of narratives in the mainstream press about shoplifting, “organized retail crime”, and how we need to fund the police to detect/prevent/reduce crime, whereas unpaid overtime is pretty much expected, especially in blue collar jobs. It exposes the media and the prevailing mainstream narratives as being biased in favor of the ruling class.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Robbing the poorest schmucks out there is a crime and needs to be punished for the first time in 26 years.

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  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think you misunderstood my comment.

    I’m suggesting to do away with the whole system that enables and encourages crimes like wage theft rather than focusing on individual symptoms of the system.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well until you get rid of the system, we should enforce our laws against employers that steal from their poor employees.

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