• varoth@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Politicians and the media keep talking about crime in general and keep claiming it’s rampant, which it isn’t. But funny, they never talk about the crime that actually IS rampant, wage theft. Wage theft is bigger than all other forms of crime combined in terms of dollars lost, yet hardly anyone ever talks about or mentions it or cares about it.

    Why? Because the people/companies responsible for committing it, also own the media outlets that would be responsible for covering it. They’re not going to expose their own crimes in other words.

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      9 months ago

      That ties in beautifully with the “the economy is booming”. Well, it is, but the news conveniently forgot to mention that all the gains go to the top and the workers are getting nothing. Instead prices are kept high and more wages are being stolen to squeeze the working class even more.

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        9 months ago

        Yep. And there’s actually really 2 economies in this country. There’s “the economy,” which is the one the government and media talk about incessantly. That’s the one that is booming and it affects only rich people. The economy, is the one that affects the rest of us and it’s in the shitter and has been for decades. But they won’t ever talk about that, because that ruins the narrative and more people would wake up if they knew how awful it truly is.