I mean, it does depend on whether you count white-collar crime Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried style as theft (the statistic provided does not).
If you did, it would dwarf the wage theft, but it would also put what usually gets prosecuted as “theft” into jaw-dropping perspective, making it look like the drop in the ocean, it is.
I believe it’s also largest in dollar amount by a long shot.
https://tcworkerscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Wage-Theft-vs-Other-Theft-1024x730.jpg
Just a quick search found something from 2018 so don’t crucify me if it’s not accurate anymore lol
Oh good point I didn’t think of that!
So it’s both the most common and the most costly theft, and we are all the victims.
Yay.
I mean, it does depend on whether you count white-collar crime Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried style as theft (the statistic provided does not).
If you did, it would dwarf the wage theft, but it would also put what usually gets prosecuted as “theft” into jaw-dropping perspective, making it look like the drop in the ocean, it is.