Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Just lately, they've cooked up a gigantic panic over a nonexistent wave of retail ...
Just lately, they've cooked up a gigantic panic over a nonexistent wave of retail theft:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/31/the-retail-theft-surge-that-isnt-report-says-crime-is-being-exaggerated-to-cover-up-other-retail-issues/
Meanwhile, the very real, non-imaginary, accelerating, multi-billion-dollar plague of #WageTheft is conspicuously missing from the public discourse, despite a total that dwarfs all retail theft in America by an order of magnitude:
https://fair.org/home/wage-theft-is-built-into-the-business-models-of-many-industries/
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https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/31/the-retail-theft-surge-that-isnt-report-says-crime-is-being-exaggerated-to-cover-up-other-retail-issues/
Meanwhile, the very real, non-imaginary, accelerating, multi-billion-dollar plague of #WageTheft is conspicuously missing from the public discourse, despite a total that dwarfs all retail theft in America by an order of magnitude:
https://fair.org/home/wage-theft-is-built-into-the-business-models-of-many-industries/
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