[wahnfrieden]

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

[coldpie]

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.

[wahnfrieden]

That sounds hypocritical and deceptive to frame it as supporting being hard on crime in general yet selectively applied

[turzmo]

It’s neither hypocritical nor deceptive. It’s simply selfish.