Well "wage theft" is also rhetorically abused to go beyond fraud, lack of payments or similiar actual misconduct and into bullshit Marx-tautology territory of "all profit is stolen from the worker". They think it helps spread their point but it really undermines it to anybody who catches on to their bullcrap.

Sorry for the offtopicness, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760952. That thread is a bit old so I want to make sure you get the reply.

Well the statistic I mentioned does not include your Marxist reference and doesn't need to include such a number to hold true. There’s nothing Marxist about it.