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News Brief: DC Media's "Fare Evasion" Meltdown

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The FTC Found Amazon FlexDribers Stolen From People's Tips

The average Amazon FlexWorker makes between $45,000 and $55,000 a year. The FTC was merely finding Amazon the exact amount they stole with no purely compensatory, no punitive damages whatsoever at all. They had to pay almost a $62 million fine, which is equivalent of the average person paying $2 because they're $1.15 trillion company market cap. No one ever talked about it. It's just an iteration on Ronald Reagan's 1976 speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi about the strapping young buck getting T-bone stakes while welfare fraud.

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