TBF, every time some corpo fuckstick parrots "theft", I'm reminded that none of them want any of us to dig into the age-old tradition of wage theft. That's theft, and what they're constantly whinging about plainly isn't.

"Every year in this country (US), workers lose more money to wage theft than is lost to all forms of property crime (robberies, burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft) combined. Each year, well over $15 billion is stolen from workers by their employers; each year, less than 3% of that total is recovered for those same workers.

Employers steal their workers’ wages in a variety of ways:

• Paying less than the minimum wage
• Not paying overtime or misclassifying workers as “exempt” from overtime pay
• Not paying workers for all hours worked
• Taking illegal deductions from workers’ paychecks
• Not paying the prevailing wage in government contracting
• Automatically deducting for breaks that workers don’t get
• Stealing workers’ tips
• Not paying workers’ last paychecks..."

(More here.)

p.s. In 2025, that "$15 billion" was actually $50 billion+. 🤢🤕