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The crime isn’t the wages themselves, it’s the collusion to lower wages. This specific type of collusion (collusion is an action not speech) that is illegal.
by thebean11 5y ago
The crime isn’t the wages themselves, it’s the collusion to lower wages.
This specific type of collusion (collusion is an action not speech) that is illegal.
- dheera 5y agoMaybe the wages themselves should be the crime. You can chat all you want with your friends over coffee about stealing stuff and although it's psychologically messed up, there's nothing legally wrong about that. It's when you actually steal that you've committed a crime. Same thing.
- thebean11 5y agoTaking the tech wage collusion example, the wages themselves were still very high (we're talking about Google and Apple salaries here) but the collusion to keep them from being higher was still a crime. Tech CEOs can talk about whatever they want. The talking isn't the crime it's the act. They could talk in theory about colluding, it becomes illegal when they DO it. I'm not sure how else to explain it.