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The same reason the media doesn't focus on the biggest theft category: wage theft.

It is easier to vilify individuals than to reduce the need for food theft (depressed wages and lack of economic opportunities for most people)

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The media also doesn't focus on the inverse of wage theft: time theft, which is probably an order of magnitude larger than wage theft, if not more.

edit: CBS reports wage theft at $50 billion a year while a 2007 study in the Kentucky CPA Journal puts time theft in the US at $400 billion per year.

Haha, is "time theft" when you post on HackerNews while you're compiling instead of checking Slack and email?

Don't "@" me. I swear my HN shitposting is marketing, or something.

Yeah I’m out here _evangelizing_ or some shit. For what I don’t know.

Lying on time sheets is usually what's meant by time theft, not checking HN while youre compiling.

In Barbara Ehrenrich's book Nickled and Dimed she got a job at a big box store (i think it was Walmart) and orientation included telling the workers that time theft was doing anything other than work while on the clock.

"But Wattabout ... Wage Theft" is just a standard trope-response on Hacker News whenever there's anything about "theft".

The same people who complain about "time theft" are the ones that try to skip on paying overtime, funnily enough

Some people do slack off but 99% of the time "time theft" is the boss being unreasonable (I'll keep it polite for HN)

Exactly. I am at the bottom of the totem pole as it goes. I am definitely not management. How am I “exempt”?

Federal minimum exempt pay should be at least $150k if not $200k.

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