Yet you have countless dipshit MAGAts, who’ve struggled desperately for decades, gleefully supporting Trump and his war on Iran, while asserting to you that shoplifting from billion dollar corporationsis one of the greatest threats to America right now.
YSK: Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses
Submitted 1 day ago by bearboiblake@pawb.social to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
coreray00@discuss.online 1 day ago
Now add civil asset forfeiture
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Hey. Just so you know, these are counted not as loss, but as gains
theolodis@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Depends on which side you’re on, I guess
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
[off topic?]
Back in the day, then-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg introduced a wide ranging plan to stop City workers from unfairly collecting overtime. The project, CityTime, was supposed to cost about $65 million. Somehow, the cost swelled to over $1 billion.
The plan was being run by Bloomberg’s daughter.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
I bet she bought a new mansion that year…
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure taxes, company profit and land rent are much bigger numbers by many orders of magnitude.
This wage theft narrative normalises capitalism while quibbling over a relatively small amount.
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.
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.
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.
Damarus@feddit.org 1 day ago
I’m not a fan of US-centric posts. What do the statistics look like for other countries?
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
I have no idea, maybe you could research it and make a post for your own country? Be the change you want to see in the world!
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m also not a fan of US-centric,but the problem is usually that it assumes all readers are from the US and know its about the US without ever mentioning the US. This one actually says “in the US” at the top, so its fine by me.
Cherry@piefed.social 1 day ago
TBF lately most of the visuals are USA Vrs rest of the world based on wars started/abuses occurred/corruption level etc. This is light reading in comparison.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
But but that’s Free Market Freedum! We can’t punish the Job Creators, because bible or some shit.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And they say the US isn’t striving to be green enough. This picture is from 2012, I think it looks much greener in 2026.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
No article?
myrmidex@belgae.social 1 day ago
I thought this was about surplus value, not even mentioned.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
The ruling class have a loophole - extracting the surplus value of their workforce isn’t a crime, sadly. Not yet, anyways. Inshallah.
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Where’s fraud? It seems like the categories chose are a sampling
bearboiblake@pawb.social 20 hours ago
Fraud would be counted under Larceny, which is a pretty broad category - robbery is larceny with violence, burglary is larceny with breaking and entering.
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
But if those are categories under larceny why is larceny its own category?
Photonic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The biggest crime? Oh my sweet summer child…
Wages are only a minor inconvenience to corporations. It is just a very small tip of a giant iceberg: tax evasion, created scarcity, inflated prices (including markup upwards of 10,000% on medical supplies), price agreements, dark marketing strategies, dark internet patterns, and many many other evil corporate strategies.