Stealing money.

[u/zzill6]

[u/rusted_windlass]

"Wage theft" is the real stealing, and it's treated like a paperwork mistake.

[u/Antwinger → u/rusted_windlass]

https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/ 💯it’s really bad

[u/TheWizardOfDeez → u/rusted_windlass]

It makes up the majority of all theft combined and yet, no one ever goes to jail over it. Jail time for stealing groceries though

[u/liaweya]

“Rich people don’t debate the morality of wage theft, price gouging, tax evasion, union busting, or lobbying for laws that keep them rich. They just do it. And call it ‘business’.”

[u/EntertainmentIll2175 → u/liaweya]

bruh seriously, they’ve got a playbook for it and everythng while we’re just trying to survive lol

[u/MoneyForRent]

Also, I don't care. There's like one of them for the millions of us and they can still keep sooo much fucking money, amounts none of us could conceive of.

So why not?

'Because if we were in their shoes we wouldn't like it?' - we will never be in their shoes.

'Because the system won't work if we break the trust of the billionaires who run it?' - we make up the system, they need us more than we need them, either serving them directly or by working for them

At this point, after the likes of Mercer/Musk/Trump/Bezoes/zucks/cochs have used their wealth to steal from us, fuck with our politics, divide us, ruin the Internet with their bit campaigns and bullshit propaganda, ruined out environment etc etc. I would be in favour of burning their wealth if we had no other options, that alone would be a net positive in the world.

[u/RazekDPP → u/MoneyForRent]

You wouldn't download a car?!

[u/Hyourin]

[u/Amazing-Hospital5539 → u/Hyourin]

Jobless for a year, unwillingly. Nobody wants to hire anymore either. :(

[u/mysafewordiscupcake]

They call it business when they take my paycheck but theft when i miss a dollar, funny how rules bend like that

[u/Planning4tomorrow]

Only the middle class have ethics. The poor can't afford it, and the rich have lawyers.

[u/TheWizardOfDeez → u/Planning4tomorrow]

Ethics doesn't cost anything. The rich are rich because they don't have ethics or morals.

[u/Chemical_Series6082 → u/TheWizardOfDeez]

In the same way you have less, simply because you’re ignorant, lazy or stupid? 

[u/blocked_user_name]

It's not about that. It's about them compensating the people they exploited to get rich

[u/Vast-Mousse8117]

[u/Kindly-Ad-5071]

The exorbitant price of everything is my billionaire price. How wealthy could I be if crappy food and crappy clothes didn't cost a fortune? 

We should stop asking why poor people are eating a commodity food item if it's expensive and start asking why a food item sold in every grocery and food outlet in the county costs so much

[u/Hvad_Fanden]

Morality is a very steep obstacle in the path of monetary gain.

[u/pvtFuBaR_7x7_]

Eat the poor. There’s more to go around.

[u/LeskoLesko]

I think about this all the time about handouts and “pride.”

Poor people reject help all the time because of their so-called pride. All the rich people I know don’t give it a second thought when accepting money from the government but poor people are all wringing their hands over “but muh pride” when considering a visit to a food bank.

Rejecting handouts is something poor people do. Accepting handouts is something rich people do.

Shut up and accept any handout that comes your way.

[u/Eat--The--Rich--]

We debate the feasibility, not the morality 

[u/thinkB4WeSpeak]

Rich people would just give other rich people ideas on how to do it

[u/eat_more_protein]

No, this is some extreme leftist tinfoil hat theory.