Comment on By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country.

• Thrillhouse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not familiar with the laws of California but I think the spirit of the post is that the cops will be on your ass immediately and you will be put in jail if you walk with $100.

  If your boss steals $100 from you it then becomes a matter for the courts before anyone in the company faces even the slightest threat of jail.

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  • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No no no! Let me continue to be obtuse, a felony against an LLC ( like, ohhhhh, I dunno this little mom and pop startup is a damning life ending thing that will forever alter the trajectory of the poor business owner’s life and livelihood. They could’ve had a bright future, free to do anything, go anywhere, hell even go to the stars all of that jeapordized by one measly little honest mistake of an accounting error ~~that was multiplied thousands of times across the workforce spanning years summing entire lifetimes of earnings ~~. Surely you can’t mean that they would be held to no recourse while the overly empowered and emboldened working class holds it’s jack boot stranglehold on poor honest golden parachute equipped hedge fund daddies who raised money from their will to do friends and family to buy a house outright for the optics of starting out of a garage with nothing…

    God damned delusional liberals

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  • BassDroid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not perfectly fine, but they’re weighing it against Wage Theft, which outweighs all other types of theft in the US based on sheer dollar-value of how much is stolen.

      No, it’s not okay to just steal from the till, but the point is the business owner can call the cops on us if we do that, and if they steal from our paychecks we have to take them to small claims court and we better have the receipts to prove it, and usually (except maybe places like California) all the business has to do is… pay back what they owe you. Nothing for damages or lost opportunities due to having less money. Nope, just pay back what they already owed you to begin with. What a joke of a slap on the wrist.

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Today I learned that wage theft actually refers to a crime, and is not just a word for paying people less than the value they create.

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    • Thrillhouse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Crime is ABSOLUTELY a social construct. Why was it legal several months ago to have an abortion across the US but now several states are criminalizing the same? Have abortions changed? No - politics did, I would argue spurred on by the desire for capitalists to keep a steady supply of low wage uneducated exploitable desperate workers.

      Why is it suddenly criminal in the state of Georgia to give food and water to people lining up at polling stations? Because one class wants to make it uncomfortable and inconvenient for another class, and I would argue race, of people to vote.

      For more, from Harper’s Magazine “Legalize It All” (How to Win the War on Drugs):

      At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

      Same as it ever was - criminalizing social classes to disempower them is the name of the game. If you aren’t wise to this you haven’t been paying attention.

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    • jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Considering this is aboringdistopia are we saying that stealing cash from a register should be perfectly fine?

      How did you manage to come to the dumbest possible interpretation of what was being said?

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not familiar with the laws of California but I think the spirit of the post is that the cops will be on your ass immediately and you will be put in jail if you walk with $100.

    If your boss steals $100 from you it then becomes a matter for the courts before anyone in the company faces even the slightest threat of jail.

    Because one of these things is stealing a possession, and one of these things is failing to pay a debt. And.we generally don’t jail people for failing to pay debts, at least not immediately. And that’s a good thing to, otherwise the poor would be getting jailed all the time.

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• FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does anyone really go to jail for wage theft though? Especially at the same severity that walking out with $100 till bucks would?

  From my perspective, it seems like the boss gets a slap on the wrist the first time, while the worker gets fired and carted off to jail the first time.

  I think that’s the point of this meme, but there are some nuances involved (aka why does the law treat these people differently? I think there may be a reason having to do with intent here, but that is discussion outside of the scope of what this meme is getting at.)

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It might be a felony, but is it enforced?

  If something is illegal but isn’t enforced, it’s not illegal.

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