Why does every workplace breakdown into this shit
You're not being hyperbolic: they literally want us all enslaved.
The fact minimum wage exists means that they would use slave labor if it was legal. And for many companies it is. Unrelated, but did you know that the 13th amendment allows for slavery for prisoners?
There's the Thirteenth that came out a couple years ago that covers a lot from the book, The New Jim Crow
it's funny how much time we spend talking about complex stuff like accumulation of surplus value, when literal wage theft dwarves all other property crimes combined
Last time someone posted that chart here, someone convinced me to do a version that adds stolen surplus labor value, and then nobody could view it because it breaks most image viewers.
(100 - US percent Labor share from the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics) / 100, times GDP.
One of the funnest things I ever got to do when I worked for a small bussiness tyrant was walk out with the rest of the workers in the middle of a big open mic night. Fuck that guy, he hadn't paid any of us for a month.
Literally what I just did on club night. Enjoy no sound for the evening fuckers
There's a place I know of that was up front and honest about hiring people as slaves. They paid their staff nothing and still got a fresh string of recruits. Mostly students desparate for experience to put on their cv. Some having worked there for 2 years with no pay and paying out of pocket for the software they needed and travel.
This is what every employer wants.
Yeah they basically only hired interns for no pay. Which was possible in that field because uni students were desparate for any experience since there's no jobs
Sometimes they strung people along promising pay but never delivering. CEO got paid obs
Because they do not see employment as an arrangement between equals and therefore see no reason to look out for you in order for you to reciprocate
In my state they owe you pentalty pay if they do this and don't resolve it.
Gooe your state and labor board and back pay and see what comes up
Shit, blue states as well. In mine I am pretty sure they get a taste of penalty wages so the office is good about hunting for them.
