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minus-squareBubs@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up49arrow-down1·8 months agoTechnically and legally, that is not wage theft. It’s scummy and should be stopped, but it’s not wage theft.
minus-squareGodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down30·8 months agoAny form of profit not shared with the people that created it is wage theft
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·8 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·8 months agoWhen you dilute words with legal definitions, you actually make it worse when it does happen. When I saw this on Facebook, I honestly thought it was a Psy Op, like how much propaganda is thrown at disrupting unions.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoOk but that obscures the actual legal crime against the proletariat that’s committed with a disturbing regularity. Labor is morally entitled to all it creates, but it’s regularly cheated out of that which it is legally entitled to as well
Technically and legally, that is not wage theft. It’s scummy and should be stopped, but it’s not wage theft.
Any form of profit not shared with the people that created it is wage theft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
When you dilute words with legal definitions, you actually make it worse when it does happen.
When I saw this on Facebook, I honestly thought it was a Psy Op, like how much propaganda is thrown at disrupting unions.
Ok but that obscures the actual legal crime against the proletariat that’s committed with a disturbing regularity. Labor is morally entitled to all it creates, but it’s regularly cheated out of that which it is legally entitled to as well
No. it is called rent seeking