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by olliej 520 days ago
So it’s wage theft then? Gotta love the “disruptive” tech industry. Such innovation.
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Why are YC’s leadership and other VCs so vocal on shoplifting crime but never raise their voice against rampant wage theft in our industry? The criminality by dollar value is far worse with the latter
Because they're the ones benefiting from the wage theft, and complaining about low-level crime helps elect politicians that are more likely to overlook that wage theft.
That sounds hypocritical and deceptive to frame it as supporting being hard on crime in general yet selectively applied
It’s neither hypocritical nor deceptive. It’s simply selfish.
Scumbags as they were once called