Diane
David Lo PunFunny how the people focused on complaining about shoplifting are rarely invested in the significantly larger problem of wage theft.
One of these things leads to imprisonment, another is a ‘this is a contract dispute’ situation.
Adam Burck@helpmeskeletor if you’ve had a gun to your head over a bottle of cognac you’d understand.
the words are maps 🗺📚🏡🏳️🌈@adamburck shoplifting by definition doesn't involve being held at gunpoint
Chris ♾️@helpmeskeletor
2 things that seem to be under-appreciated on this are the relative scale of Wage Theft vs. other kinds of theft
https://mastodon.world/@lucifermorningstar/109605697125903197
...and how much retailers and media work to stoke the view that shoplifting is more prevalent than it really is https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media
Lucifer ☄️ (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's bad-taste-in-your-mouth info is that crime is reported drastically differently when the victims are wealthy and powerful vs. poor and marginal When you think of crime, are you thinking of the kind that gets news coverage? Is it surprising to you to know that wage theft exceeds all other kinds of theft combined? That's the power of media