I’m curious about this “stealing wages” idea. How have their wages been stolen?
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Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe we shouldn’t be taking advice on lower income workers from billionaires who got rich by stealing their worker’s wages
dafo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The idea is all those profits should be fairly distributed among the workers rather than being taken by the capital that owns the company.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I absolutely agree, but it looks like the folks who work at Microsoft get compensated way better than the average worker: www.cordantwealth.com/…/microsoft-compensation/
Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social 1 year ago
This isn't necessarily what the commenter was talking about but wage theft is estimated to be at about $50bil per year which is more than all other forms of property crime combined and it is rarely punished even when reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees
Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social 1 year ago
This isn't necessarily what the commenter was talking about but wage theft is estimated to be at about $50bil per year which is more than all other forms of property crime combined and it is rarely punished even when reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
While I don’t think any just society should allow anyone to be a billionaire, at least Bill Gates is giving away a lot of his wealth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
These “Foundations” are tax shelters.
0ddysseus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well that’s a dumb thing to say. That money was stolen from other people to start with. This is like robin hood, but the rich guy steals from the poor and then gives part of it back to them so he pays less tax, which would have meant he gave more back to them…
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You got conned bud