> If “wage theft” is relevant, then so is time theft
How? Isn't this a whataboutism?
And do your bullet points have sources? They sound like the sort of thing a corrupt business would falsely report.
How? Isn't this a whataboutism?
And do your bullet points have sources? They sound like the sort of thing a corrupt business would falsely report.
I am trying to parody the point that as soon as we decide that theft can mean whatever we wish it to (for presumably good reasons), then that implicitly allows everyone (including people you’d rather didn’t) to use theft to mean whatever they want it to.
Civil forfeiture is not theft (although it certainly feels like it to victims, and there are similarities between the two concepts).
Thread root claims wage theft is a bigger problem, and I am balancing that with time theft.
Sorry for stealing your attention.
How do you figure?
The way I see it, civil forfeiture IS theft. Taking something that belongs to someone else without their consent is theft and that seems to be precisely what civil forfeiture consists of. Just because a court has labelled it differently if someone in a blue hat does it does not make it suddenly not theft. It is simply court-sanctioned theft.
Words can mean whatever we want.
“Theft from the government” could be defined as someone being insufficiently civil, or someone showing insufficient altruism towards other citizens.
Today I'm a SWE, writing this comment while working from home. I often get praises by my manager for my work. I plan to clean my apartment this afternoon and maybe do some groceries. Never heard anything about time theft at my current workplace.
Unfortunately, managers can see how many boxes are left in a truck and how many were unloaded, they can't really see how many more line of codes are needed to finish a feature or how much thinking about the problem is required to find a solution.