So maybe your business model is flawed? If you can't survive without robbing your employees then you shouldn't survive at all. This would easily be solvable by building growth organically, or having companies that hook into your service willingly to offer delivery at lower cost to them than hiring a full time employee. This would necessarily limit usefulness to larger population centers, but would make it more viable long term.

I'd have more sympathy if there were also giving equity to the people they are stealing from.

> Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Surely that should be "Business goes under if you don't, executives go to jail for mass fraud if you do."

I'm not a lawyer, but I do wonder what the legal threshold between "following ethics" and "fiduciary duty" is.