Wage theft still outpaces all other forms of theft
Holy shit that’s insane and unjustifiable
It’s illegal in the constitution. But at some point a supreme Court said it wasn’t. So.
It definitely qualifies as “illegal seizure”.
Now to be fair, this does not include wage theft.
Civil Forfeiture Now Amounts to More than All Other Theft & Burglary Combined
FTFY
Racial Disparities: African Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics each made up about 31% of asset forfeiture cases, indicating potential racial disparities in how civil forfeiture is applied
Cops stealing money from minorities, of course that’s legal. Steal infant formula to feed your baby? Straight to jail!
Let’s see $69 Billion. 62% comes from African and Hispanic Americans. That’s $41.4 Billion from those two groups which make up 102 million Americans combined. That’s $405 stolen from every African or Hispanic American man woman and child over 19 years.
Serve and protect indeed. ACAB.
Damn those are horrifying statistics. As a child over 19 years old I’m so happy not to be in the USA.
My question is where wage theft sits compared with other types of theft too. I remember it being comparable to all other types of theft some time ago, but that may have been in Australia. Does anyone know?
2024 US wage theft: $50 billion annually (EPI US estimate) US Yearly shoplifting shrinkage stated at “around $13 billion”. US Retail Theft and shrinkage nearly $112 billion (includes embezzlement, fraud, employee theft, and lost/damage merchandise)
Note: The numbers are skewed. The wage theft numbers are only based on recovered wages.
The shrinkage statistics like to throw in fraud and embezzlement numbers.
Yep, also those numbers are not all from the same year. The $50 billion is from the Economic Policy Institute from 2017, so adjusted for inflation would be at least $65.8 billion now. And that will definitely be underreported as you said, only wages actually disputed are included there and it may or may not include those disputed and not obtained, it is unclear.
That said, it is roughly 15% of total earnings which is stolen this way. If that was shrinkage for a store it would not operate. So intense, and yet cameras and AI systems are being rolled out for preventing theft but nothing is being done about wage theft. It makes it very clear that policing is for protecting the current system with the current spread of wealth and not for preventing theft or increasing justice.
I really think the only way around this would be to have systems external to the companies for clock on and clock off linked to their pay system to have people actually recording their hours and have their pay adjusted by an impartial system. Business owners have proven themselves untrustworthy in terms of paying for labour and they should be held to account.
It’s only categorized as theft if it is a loss to the wealthy
My problem is that 70% of the population are illiterate fucks, and deny capitalism is theft, when the proof is right there.
It’s ironic that you complain about illiteracy with that comment.
But also, it’s a built in feature of capitalism. It will only ever allow the plebian to learn enough to provide useful skills, with a handful of exceptional rising above while still being shackled by capital (see how e.g. Nikola Tesla tried to break out of the cycle without success). People will be kept illiterate and just conscious enough to do the work, be provided with just enough to do said work.
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Glad to find a comrade instead. However I find anti-intellectuals in America much too often. A willingness to ignore, conform, & comply.
Tis y more deathcamps are being built instead of demolished.Anti-intellectualism is due to the rise of fascism, and fascism is due to the lack of knowledge/understanding - let it be intentional or coincidental.
Human brains are wired for two things, from birth:
- fear of the unknown, to help survive. this is why you fear the dark as a child, and why you create circles of “distance of understanding” - the further something is from you, the more afraid you are of it. And this is the core source of tribalism.
- in lack of knowledge/understanding, gravitation towards those confident in their knowledge, even if it’s bullshit (populism). Simple, easy to understand answers to questions you have, especially if they fuel the underlying tribalist hate, will be more successful in convincing people than well formed, reasoned solutions.
Anti-intellectualism was there way before the first red scare.
gravitation towards those confident in their knowledge,
I dunno if it’s my ASD or experience, but I question authorities and confidents all the time, so this really doesn’t work on me.
FoU is something I agree with, but I take the “let me learn more about this” than accept it as an unknown.
ACAN
what’s this mean?
I think it means the B key is right beside the N key on qwerty keyboards.
I think youre right, should had caught this, thank you
All Cops Are Ne’er-do-wells?
Narcan!
Cool so we should be flush with cash for other shit 😏
