This category of consequence would solve so many problems. Think of how much everyone's lives would be improved if stealing wages was a crime with actual repercussions.

Where do you see evidence of wages being stolen?

Wage theft is extremely common in the US, to the sum of billions

https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...

GP was drawing a parallel, not alleging that wage theft is a part of these particular bankcruptcy proceedings.

Threatening to jail startup founders if they can’t open source the entire code for their product if it fails is one of the more out of touch ideas I’ve seen on Hacker News lately.

Many products are developed with software licensed from vendors, which cannot be open sourced by the startup. They don’t even own the IP, just a license to use it.