Wage theft has ALWAYS been the number one form of theft, and that's not even counting Jeff and Elon stealing the value of their laborer's work
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Divided by 170 million workers that's ~90 bucks per person. That's less than I expected. Of course not all wage theft is created equal ao some people are going to be losing multiple times that.
I imagine a chunk of those workers are paid correctly though, ramping up the average for those that aren't
$294.11 if you use the $50,000,000,000 that the article states in the infographic.
Oh you're right. I wonder why the title doesn't say that. That said assuming half the work force doesn't go through wage theft we're looking at ~600 dollars per person. Wow that's a lot. Also why did you just write all those zeroes?
Habit mostly, but also I feel the number written out gives a slightly larger impact than it written as 50 billion.
Wage theft is only theft when we do it to them. Otherwise it's sparkling profit.
im pretty sure its alot more than that, indirectly through taxes, which billionaires/corporations dont pay.
And even better, the vast majority of us vote for the people who facilitate it on the part of corporations and the Billionaire/Epstein Class. You pull the red lever or the blue lever and kind of just ignore that no matter who we elect, you get poorer.
my workplace recently changed from a clock in / clock out payroll system to one where you have to manually enter your hours assigned to each project. that includes having to manually make entries for holidays and vacation/sick days etc, instead of them being automatically handled by the system.
surely this will go well
to clarify, we always had hours booked to projects, like most similar companies. what happened was that when transferring to a new ERP system (an incredibly shitty one, probably the worst bit of software I've ever used in my life, there are no valid excuses for how bad it is), they kept both the clock tool and the hours booking tool, however they linked payroll to the hours booking tool instead of clock (as any sane employer would). so instead of people knowing that they're being paid the moment they clock in at the door (as they should be), they have to ensure that their manually entered booked hours match what they actually worked. including the time between them submitting their timesheet and leaving the building. it's fucked. god forbid somebody flag you down to help them on your way out - "sorry, can't, already submitted my timesheet, try again next week"
Capitalism is still working as intended.