Wasn't 2010 the year when you had to have something like a PhD and 20 references to get a job flipping burgers at McDonalds? That's the worst economic year I can recall in my life, or maybe it was 2009.

That's irrelevant or we'd see a blip upward around that time. Instead, the trend has been clear and almost entirely monotonic.

https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191247/reported-larceny-t...

Thanks, pretty shocking. Really puts a hole in the theory that people stealing out of 'necessity' is a dominating factor.