The biggest crime? Oh my sweet summer child...
Wages are only a minor inconvenience to corporations. It is just a very small tip of a giant iceberg: tax evasion, created scarcity, inflated prices (including markup upwards of 10,000% on medical supplies), price agreements, unethical marketing strategies, dark internet patterns, and many many other evil corporate strategies.
Hey. Just so you know, these are counted not as loss, but as gains
Depends on which side you're standing, I guess
Now add civil asset forfeiture
Federally, it would be between robbery and auto theft. (~$2.3B)
I'm not a fan of US-centric posts. What do the statistics look like for other countries?
I have no idea, maybe you could research it and make a post for your own country? Be the change you want to see in the world!
I'm also not a fan of US-centric,but the problem is usually that it assumes all readers are from the US and know its about the US without ever mentioning the US. This one actually says "in the US" at the top, so its fine by me.
TBF lately most of the visuals are USA Vrs rest of the world based on wars started/abuses occurred/corruption level etc. This is light reading in comparison.
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Back in the day, then-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg introduced a wide ranging plan to stop City workers from unfairly collecting overtime. The project, CityTime, was supposed to cost about $65 million. Somehow, the cost swelled to over $1 billion.
The plan was being run by Bloomberg's daughter.
I bet she bought a new mansion that year...
I'm pretty sure taxes, company profit and land rent are much bigger numbers by many orders of magnitude.
This wage theft narrative normalises capitalism while quibbling over a relatively small amount.
I’m pretty sure taxes, company profit and land rent are much bigger numbers by many orders of magnitude.
No doubt about that, and you'll get no arguments from me against that.
This wage theft narrative normalises capitalism while quibbling over a relatively small amount.
Yeah, I can see your point. The reason I present it is because there are lots of narratives in the mainstream press about shoplifting, "organized retail crime", and how we need to fund the police to detect/prevent/reduce crime, whereas unpaid overtime is pretty much expected, especially in blue collar jobs. It exposes the media and the prevailing mainstream narratives as being biased in favor of the ruling class.
Robbing the poorest schmucks out there is a crime and needs to be punished for the first time in 26 years.
I think you misunderstood my comment.
I'm suggesting to do away with the whole system that enables and encourages crimes like wage theft rather than focusing on individual symptoms of the system.
Well until you get rid of the system, we should enforce our laws against employers that steal from their poor employees.
And they say the US isn't striving to be green enough. This picture is from 2012, I think it looks much greener in 2026.
Link to article?
Yet you have countless dipshit MAGAts, who've struggled desperately for decades, gleefully supporting Trump and his war on Iran, while asserting to you that shoplifting from billion dollar corporationsis one of the greatest threats to America right now.
But but that's Free Market Freedum! We can't punish the Job Creators, because bible or some shit.
I thought this was about surplus value, not even mentioned.
The ruling class have a loophole - extracting the surplus value of their workforce isn't a crime, sadly. Not yet, anyways. Inshallah.
Where's fraud? It seems like the categories chosen are a sampling
Fraud would be counted under Larceny, which is a pretty broad category - robbery is larceny with violence, burglary is larceny with breaking and entering.
But if those are categories under larceny why is larceny its own category?
The omission of fraud as its own category sticks out to me because of how much healthcare companies do medicare fraud. I think I remember hearing trump pardoned some guy who alone committed it in the billions of dollars? If it's included in larceny on this chart it seems low in that context.
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