On: Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims

[di456]

It's really hard to weasel out of employment law violations, even for the rich.

[giraffe_lady → di456]

Isn't wage theft like $30 billion/year or something ridiculous like that? Regardless of what ends up happening with this one I think most of them are getting away with it.

[jakelazaroff → giraffe_lady]

Yes — significantly more than blue collar crimes like burglaries and shoplifting. And it’s not just “the system” that is invested in letting rich people get off the hook; just look at how many people on here are extremely vocal about e.g. arresting their way out of petty theft yet have no interest in the far more harmful crimes committed by rich people.

[rightbyte → jakelazaroff]

Blue collar crimes like burglaries? There is a wiki-entry of "Blue collar crimes", but the phrase doesn't make sense. It is not a crime you do becouse you are a blue collar worker, unlike say finanial fraud as a bank clerk.

[energybar → giraffe_lady]

Some additional research here: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/

[robertlagrant → giraffe_lady]

> Isn't wage theft like $30 billion/year or something ridiculous like that?

It's hard to justify this. It's multiplied-up survey data. It's not real the way FTX numbers were actual real numbers worth talking about.

[Timon3 → robertlagrant]

"Multiplied-up survey data" seems like a pretty normal way to do estimations in statistics. What is your concrete issue with this?

[robertlagrant → Timon3]

Surveys aren't a general thing about statistics.

[Timon3 → robertlagrant]

I assumed you were derogatorily referencing study data. Can you be specific what kind of survey it was that you saw, and why it doesn't rise to the status of a study?

[krainboltgreene → di456]

Elon Musk could foot the estimated yearly wage theft for the entire United States for 4 years and still have 50B.