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By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country.
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This is an argument for punishing wage theft not that crime is a made up concept.
To paraphrase my favorite author:
To call something a social construct doesn't diminish the impact of that thing. Race is a social construct as well, and that too has very real impacts on people. Much of what humans interact with on a daily basis are social constructs. That doesn't make those things meaningless or trivial.
Marriage is a social construct, but that doesn't mean I can go around acting like I'm single without consequence.
One crime has far less harsh sentences, far less enforcement, and a much more significant impact. Yet harm is the same by the money amounts.
The harm from wage theft is generally worse, as the employee is much more likely to be negatively impacted from missing that $100 than the employer is.