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The Atlantic knows how to punch left
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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Corporations: steal tens-of-billions from employees who're just barely scraping by
Me/you: shoplifts can of soda/bag of chips which should be priced at $2-3 according to inflation, rather than it's listed price of $4-7
Atlantic Magazine: [hand on hip wagging finger in face] "How dare you? There are rules that govern society, young man/lady, this is simply unacceptable."
There is missing an area even biger than wage theft. Tax evasion. When cooperations and rich people steal from the gouvernment.
and indirectly, from you, who relies on public infrastructure funded by taxes
Wage theft and tax evasion are just the nominal theft, the real theft is surplus value extraction.