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Then threaten the corporate officers’ freedom instead

• plagiarist 2y ago
  This category of consequence would solve so many problems. Think of how much everyone's lives would be improved if stealing wages was a crime with actual repercussions.
  • hluska 2y ago
    Where do you see evidence of wages being stolen?
    • deleted 2y ago
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    • charlesabarnes 2y ago
      Wage theft is extremely common in the US, to the sum of billions https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/ https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...
      • hluska 2y ago
        Perhaps but there is no evidence of wage theft in this instance. Is there evidence of it occurring in this case?
        • majewsky 2y ago
          GP was drawing a parallel, not alleging that wage theft is a part of these particular bankcruptcy proceedings.
• Aurornis 2y ago
  Threatening to jail startup founders if they can’t open source the entire code for their product if it fails is one of the more out of touch ideas I’ve seen on Hacker News lately. Many products are developed with software licensed from vendors, which cannot be open sourced by the startup. They don’t even own the IP, just a license to use it.