• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Yeah, doing this simply devalues the term ‘wage theft’. It’s like calling catcalling ‘rape’, except that catcalling might actually be illegal.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 month ago

      Yeah the point is “if profits go up, so should wages, else you’re being taken advantage of” but that’s a little more long winded than “wage theft”

    • Fleur__@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Honestly it’s your problem if you think rape is less of an issue because of something that very obviously does not happen all that often.

      • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        It’s a ‘boy who cried wolf’ problem. If you start using the term inaccurately, at first you get lots of attention, then very quickly everyone assumes that when you say you were raped, someone actually just walked in on you in the bathroom.

        • Fleur__@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          Except nobody thinks that about rape at this doesn’t happen often enough to actually cause the change you’re describing