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Both can be true. And things such as denying healthcare can be wrong, unethical, reprehensible, etc without being violence. There are other forms of bad things.
They can be considered violent when people die due to those decisions when the only rationale to deny them was in order to provide $3 EPS rather than $2.98 that quarter.
It's a matter of conceptualizing violence.
A medieval siege was a battle of attrition. Encircle the castle and just starve them out.
Is this violence even if no one was stabbed and everyone starved?
Wage suppression and inflation are ultimately the same battle of attrition wherein the working class is pushed into poverty. Wage theft from employers is as much as 80% of all theft in the US.
I've never seen a fucking corporation in handcuffs and yet they're still people with tax breaks and infinite political contributions. Odd coincidence.