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.
In this public News Brief, "DC Media's 'Fare Evasion' Meltdown," we discuss local TV news, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal's breathless coverage of so-called "fare evasion" and how our media decides which theft to care about and which to ignore.