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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.