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Justice. These people deserve a lengthy prison time. The pain they caused so many is indescribable.
I agree with you, but it feels like a good time to point out that employers steal 25 times that amount from employees every single year.
I agree with you, but it feels like a good time to point out that Vending Machines kill on average 13 people a year. Money means nothing compared to getting away with murder.
I like your style.
Your comment doesn’t negate theirs. While it is true that wage theft by employers is a problem bringing it up in this threads/in this manner, marginalizes the feelings of the people that had their lives upended by these reprobates. Interjected statements, like this, are best brought up/received fluidly and not by saying “Yeah your thing was bad, BUT YOU KNOW WHATS WORSE…”.
I wasn't trying to negate their comment at all, nor marginalize the feelings of anyone. Most people are entirely unaware that wage theft even exists.
These criminals will go to jail, and examples will be made of them for the audacity of their crimes. That's good, because thieves should face justice.
But re-reading it, I can see how I came off that way. My mistake.
This is my point to a T. Intent doesn’t matter here. Your comment DID marginalize their feelings, it detracts away from this thread’s purpose which is for those that wished for justice after having their cars ruined to see that there has been some justice served to the people that ruined their car.
I apologize for marginalizing people's feelings on the subject. I wasn't thinking how my comment would affect people who have personally been victims of these criminals. I included my intent not to justify my carelessness, but to hopefully clarify my goals. I hoped to harness the outrage to direct it at something productive.
There are no defenders of catalytic converter thieves. Nobody is making the argument that destroying cars to steal precious metals is a critical component of our economy. I am not suggesting that it's not worthy of anger and contempt.
I do still hope that more people become aware of wage theft. There are far more victims, a far greater percentage are unaware that they are victims, and there is infinitely more work to be done to fight wage theft. But I acknowledge that this was the wrong way to being it up.
I was gonna click the upward arrow for your heartfelt apology but then you had to bring the wage theft thing up again! Aaaah