JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago‘Unprecedented’ theft contributed to $112 billion in retail losses last yearwww.seattletimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down132
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minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoJust a correction: wage theft accounted for up to $50 billion in 2014 according to the EPI, not 2017. That would be roughly $65 billion today. Like you, I would also like to see more recent numbers.
minus-squareSoylentBlake@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoIdk where or how yr getting 65B For simplicity; 40B in 2014 is 120B today. That’s x3. That would out wage theft at 150B. Which is far more believable. These mfers are in court in a dozen states over child labor violations, I don’t think they suddenly found a conscious
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoInflation has not been 200% over the past 9 years. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50&year1=201401&year2=202308 $50 billion in 2014 equates to roughly $65 billion today.
Just a correction: wage theft accounted for up to $50 billion in 2014 according to the EPI, not 2017. That would be roughly $65 billion today. Like you, I would also like to see more recent numbers.
Idk where or how yr getting 65B
For simplicity; 40B in 2014 is 120B today. That’s x3. That would out wage theft at 150B.
Which is far more believable. These mfers are in court in a dozen states over child labor violations, I don’t think they suddenly found a conscious
Inflation has not been 200% over the past 9 years.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50&year1=201401&year2=202308
$50 billion in 2014 equates to roughly $65 billion today.