When people with no integrity or ethics defraud their employers, "it's life"?
How is it an ethical issue? If you don’t have enough in front of you and the pressure isn’t on to be superman, why take the slackoff job your employer is incentivizing for you? Rational take is to do this. See yourself as a consultancy sees itself. If the barriers towards forming your own LLC to represent your own labor in this way weren’t so high this wouldn’t even have to happen; we’d all be contracting projects because that actually makes sense over salary or even hourly. That is even how your own boss sees you without this arrangement: a sort of kept contractor to be let go of should restructuring happen after a project ends.
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.
Yes. It's the same with wage theft.
Wage theft vastly outstrips other forms of theft[0] and it's considered a complete non priority by law enforcement, politicians, and the media.
These kinds of things just aren't a priority for one reason for another. Let's brainstorm some solutions to wage theft and overemployment.
I suggest a synergistic approach -- fix wage theft and it'll have a knock-on effective with things like overemployment or people pretending to work a single job.
What do you think?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft#/media/File:Wage_th...