Just because the actual defined term requires a law to be broken does not mean there cannot be a colloquial use that illustrates how unjust it is to continue grinding down wages to maximize surplus value.
Language is dynamic, after all.
I get what you're saying, though, and technically speaking, you are correct. I'm not fully sure where I stand on the misuse of this word in this context, tbh.
No, the OP is describing a completely different concept. This isn’t an argument about only the statutory language applying, it’s a statement that when phrases have commonly agreedupon meanings, attempting to use them differently is actively wasting your audience’s time.
Wags theft is when you make workers clock out for meetings or make tipped staff do back of house work, misusing terms just desensitizes people to them.
Blame Reagan (again/still). The biggest cause of the discrepancy is allowing stock buybacks. It's too attractive to ceos/boards/investors to take their profits and use it to pump equity price rather than allocate it to wages and other direct investment in the company.
Fortunately, it's a pretty simple first step - ban stock buybacks
11 Comments
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 12d
That’s not what wage theft is. It’s bullshit and wouldn’t happen in a just society. But, “wage theft” is a specific term and this isn’t it.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 12d
Just because the actual defined term requires a law to be broken does not mean there cannot be a colloquial use that illustrates how unjust it is to continue grinding down wages to maximize surplus value.
Language is dynamic, after all.
I get what you're saying, though, and technically speaking, you are correct. I'm not fully sure where I stand on the misuse of this word in this context, tbh.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 12d
No, the OP is describing a completely different concept. This isn’t an argument about only the statutory language applying, it’s a statement that when phrases have commonly agreedupon meanings, attempting to use them differently is actively wasting your audience’s time.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 12d
Well as long we're arguing about the definitions and use of words the elites are happy.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 2 pts · 12d
Care to define it for us?
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 12d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 12d
Wags theft is when you make workers clock out for meetings or make tipped staff do back of house work, misusing terms just desensitizes people to them.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 12d
No it isn't.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 12d
My boss requires me to be on call, without pay. That's wage theft.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 12d
Blame Reagan (again/still). The biggest cause of the discrepancy is allowing stock buybacks. It's too attractive to ceos/boards/investors to take their profits and use it to pump equity price rather than allocate it to wages and other direct investment in the company.
Fortunately, it's a pretty simple first step - ban stock buybacks
ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io · 6 pts · 12d
Also, if you're not getting a yearly raise at least to match inflation then you're being paid less.