A Boring Dystopia

Are any of these stats actual stats or part of a study or anything other than a watermarked, compressed meme format that someone can cite? Almost election time and getting stats and facts straight rn is pretty important

I think you mean "than other thieves stole." Don't want to accidentally imply they aren't thieves.

The big red supermarket I work for in Aus is being investigated by the government over their record profits during a cost of living crisis and all of a sudden they decided, for no reason, to check to see if they had been paying us right for the last decade and suprise, suprise, they've underpayed workers and are now paying it back as a "sorry", yeah sorry you got caught.

Please add sources to this infographic, maybe in the lower section, and this can be used as an actual, tactical weapon in everyday interactions.

And no, this comment is not an attempted underhanded attack against this infographic. People are taught in modern global world to trust researched sources. It's an rhetorical weapon, even if based on truth (which I hope this infographic is based on).

And no, I'm not a fucking LLM. Im just finnish and a little bit drunk.

I had an employer who would tell us that we were committing "Time Theft" any time we were on the clock and not actively working on something at any moment of the day. When California DoL started cracking down on my city, my employer started complaining about government overreach and "State Sanctioned Time Theft" when he was required to give us 2x 15 min breaks on the clock on top of a whopping 30 minutes off the clock for lunch.

Because the gov gets it's cut. That's why. It's easier to keep 1 big corp happy so long as they shuffle over that 15% or less.

Plus, no one in gov wants to be the one that forced a large corp to shutdown costing a bunch of normal people jobs.

Why do you think military contractors setup factories in all 50 states to make 1 type of aircraft..... Senators that don't want more fighter jets? Well the factory that employs 2000 of it's citizens might just have to close down then .... Oh I see you changes your mind ..here's a campaign contribution instead

That's only from wages, it's not counting all the other forms of crimes that companies do, like speculation with physical stock, false marketing, investor fraud, inventory destruction, monopoly, intelectual theft, etc etc

This isn't even countin the theft of the surplus labor value the parasites steal away from the working class. That same money is then used to purchase the government over time.

All those violations are what the lawsuits agreed to or were documented.

There's many many companies that violate the law and get away with it.

Where theft is always reported, for insurance and tracking reasons.

This is why you should organize your workplace.

We were looking.. but we can't (or won't) enforce our power through threat or use of force. So they can take from us without fear.

Also not represented here is asset forfeiture by law enforcement which is now routine. In 2015-ish, it was about $5 billion a year, nationwide.

Some states have made laws against it. Some states don't enforce those laws while others do. (Police often will take that chance.) I don't know how the figure has shifted since.

To answer the question in the title, it's because corporations have more rights than us.

Wait til you see what they stole from the government - literally the ability to govern!

kill em all and let dogs sort em out, or whatever

Honestly how does somebody even figure a job is worth doing for less than $7.25? The only way that job even pays for the food needed to replace the calories is if they live off of homemade bread and multivitamins, without home heating or running water.

Probably something like seasonal farm workers living in a temporary housing complex and eating from the harvest.

And that's exactly why I steal from corporations whenever I can. Shoplifting, online piracy, fare dodging, etc. are applied everyday class struggle.

Source?