re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea

US retail lobbyists retract key claim on ‘organized’ retail crime

There was a lot that was fucked up about the claim and the larger ecosystem it inhabited that I got into here, but the one thing I missed was how it’s just basic DARVO and served as a way of distracting people from the fact that wage theft dwarfs all other forms of theft:

According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft costs U.S. workers as much as $50 billion per year — a number far higher than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined. While we’re taught to be vigilant and lock our homes and cars to prevent robberies, most workers are not trained on how to identify wage theft and claw back stolen wages. Wage theft is also more likely to affect low-wage workers, immigrant workers, and workers with less education and fewer resources.