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.
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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.
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, dark marketing strategies, dark internet patterns, and many many other evil corporate strategies.
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.
Hey. Just so you know, these are counted not as loss, but as gains
I'm not a fan of US-centric posts. What do the statistics look like for other countries?
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.
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!
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.
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.