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Judging by how easily shoplifters are convicted, it would appear you can just "know it" when the crime is property theft. No one gets off the hook by claiming t
by clipsy 3y ago
Judging by how easily shoplifters are convicted, it would appear you can just "know it" when the crime is property theft. No one gets off the hook by claiming they "accidentally" stuffed a bunch of expensive goods in their coat and walked out the door; no one should get off the hook by claiming they "accidentally" refused to pay their employees.
- Brigand 3y agoWhere do you live that shoplifters are easily convicted?
- cheeetohs 3y agoThe trouble is that, much like identity theft, wage theft isn’t theft, nor is it much alike to theft. It’s still bad of course (worse than property theft). You aren’t proving that a physical item that should be in one location has in fact been moved to another. You’re proving that the reason some dollars haven’t been moved from one place to another is that the perpetrator intended to withhold those dollars. That could be changed though. Criminalize the simple fact of underpayment, as opposed to requiring intent, and I imagine wage theft would rates would go down? …But beware unintended consequences. You don’t necessarily want to throw the neighborhood baker into jail because she bounced a paycheck.
- dTal 3y agoTheft of a physical object must also be intentional. Wage theft is very much alike to theft, although it would be more properly termed "labor theft".
- ajhurliman 3y agoI thought this was sarcasm at first but I’m genuinely not sure now: Do you truly believe shoplifters are easily and often prosecuted, let alone convicted? Personally, I’ve never seen or heard of a single person have any repercussions for shoplifting, and I’ve seen a _lot_ of shoplifting in Seattle.