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I was referring to this phrase: > Because they have never been poor, they had no idea what I might do. Why would I steal, when everyone clearly has enough? fr
by maury91 5y ago
I was referring to this phrase:
> Because they have never been poor, they had no idea what I might do. Why would I steal, when everyone clearly has enough?
from how I understood it, because she has been poor, she had reasons for stealing.
In companies I worked for the snacks are there for being taken, I notice in every company I worked for there's the rule "the company is going to put stuff in the kitchen in some common areas, everyone is free to take them", I did always ask to a colleague about that, just to be sure I don't steal the pack of chips another colleague left there.
- StavrosK 5y ago> from how I understood it, because she has been poor, she had reasons for stealing. No, it says that nobody even considered that she might steal, because rich people don't see the point of stealing when stuff is so cheap relative to their wealth that it's effectively free. That's why nobody bothered to even escort her, stealing just didn't even occur to them at all.
- maury91 5y agoThanks, I got the wrong reasoning, it's not that she might steal, it's that people that has never been poor don't think stealing is an option.
- StavrosK 5y agoYep, exactly! Because why would someone steal when they can just go on Amazon and have the thing delivered?
- maury91 5y agoI believe it depends on the value of the object and the chances of getting caught. If you steal a macbook in an office full of cameras is a bad deal. If you steal a macbook every other day in an office without any camera is a good deal. And the second option is exactly what happened in an office I worked on, at some point enough people complained that their macbook was stolen and they installed cameras. Funny thing in the same office my lunch was stolen once a week and that just became a joke during stand-ups "did they stole your lunch today?"
- bzzzt 5y agoDidn't anyone bother to set up the MacBook activation locks? Or did people steal MacBooks anyway just to throw them away later when they turn out to be unusable?
- maury91 5y ago> Didn't anyone bother to set up the MacBook activation locks? The macbooks were handled by the IT department, everyone was just using them, so I don't know if such a function was enabled, the only security measures I know there were are remote login and disk encryption. I don't know what the person that stole the macbooks did with them, but because he/she stole more than one I believe he/she was able to make a profit