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It's really hard to weasel out of employment law violations, even for the rich.
by di456 3y ago
It's really hard to weasel out of employment law violations, even for the rich.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoIsn't wage theft like $30 billion/year or something ridiculous like that? Regardless of what ends up happening with this one I think most of them are getting away with it.
- energybar 3y agoSome additional research here: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/ https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/
- jakelazaroff 3y agoYes — significantly more than blue collar crimes like burglaries and shoplifting. And it’s not just “the system” that is invested in letting rich people get off the hook; just look at how many people on here are extremely vocal about e.g. arresting their way out of petty theft yet have no interest in the far more harmful crimes committed by rich people.
- rightbyte 3y agoBlue collar crimes like burglaries? There is a wiki-entry of "Blue collar crimes", but the phrase doesn't make sense. It is not a crime you do becouse you are a blue collar worker, unlike say finanial fraud as a bank clerk.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> Isn't wage theft like $30 billion/year or something ridiculous like that? It's hard to justify this. It's multiplied-up survey data. It's not real the way FTX numbers were actual real numbers worth talking about.
- Timon3 3y ago"Multiplied-up survey data" seems like a pretty normal way to do estimations in statistics. What is your concrete issue with this?
- robertlagrant 3y agoSurveys aren't a general thing about statistics.
- Timon3 3y agoI assumed you were derogatorily referencing study data. Can you be specific what kind of survey it was that you saw, and why it doesn't rise to the status of a study?
- krainboltgreene 3y agoElon Musk could foot the estimated yearly wage theft for the entire United States for 4 years and still have 50B.