For people who have no other options of making money to those who (less charitably) have an addiction to satiate there is no calculation of the investment. It's

For people who have no other options of making money to those who (less charitably) have an addiction to satiate there is no calculation of the investment. It's also a crime that has fairly small likelihood of meaningful prosecution. Most of us here think about ROI. People who are stealing pallets are either doing the calculation of "some money is more than no money" or as part of a more organized crime undertaking It falls into a similar bucket as stealing copper from the wiring of abandoned/in construction buildings