A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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Reminds me of the false narrative that came out a couple of years ago about Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc closing numerous locations due to excessive and unprecedented theft from stores when in many cases it was a way to hide poorly performing stores due to mismanagement or bad locations from shareholders.
These stories always break out during economic downturns.
Nobody wants to come to terms with the fact that a MegaMart whose customer base is drying up because of unemployment and falling wages might be failing for a reason other than gangsters from a 90s blacksploitation crime thriller doing train robbery heists in the costume jewelry department.
The crime? Wage theft.
The criminals? The owners.
The owing class
The News: "Crime at an all time high, as businesses shutter their doors!"
The Crime: $50B/year in wage theft
Weird how being held accountable for crimes can lead to a business closure.
"Oakland crime" yes, wage theft is a crime. It did occur in Oakland. Pretty straightforward really.
genius headline really, technically true but nobodies going to think wage theft
I haven't done the homework but this flare up on crime increase sounds like yet another excuse to be oppressive. Remember the egg shortage a little while ago? Didn't it turn out to just be price fixing?
Anyhow, I'd appreciate some good resources people have, if any, talking about this retail crime panic.
Wonder how often the old “gratuity” definition gets thrown out in these cases: Unlike a tip, automatic gratuity funds are considered restaurant funds and are not specifically designated as the property of the server by the customer.
This reminds me of a year or so ago when conservatives kept claiming "Trans sexual assaults in bathrooms were up" and it turned out that Trans people were the victims and not the perpetrators.
This is truly the most evil way of framing a headline. To make the victim the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim.
So yea crime, caused BY the business