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[-] sleep_deprived@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I would definitely call it theft in most cases, because in a capitalist system, labor is structurally coerced and is not giving up its surplus value freely, as you basically said yourself in different words. Or perhaps more succinctly, I would call slavery a form of theft. But I agree it isn't "wage theft" because that has a more specific understood meaning related to what's owed according to the law.

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