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Uh who could have this seen comming?!? Thing like this start to happen, if the gap between rich and poor becomes bigger and bigger. The next logic step would be
by _trampeltier 5y ago
Uh who could have this seen comming?!? Thing like this start to happen, if the gap between rich and poor becomes bigger and bigger. The next logic step would be just hijack random people.
- ejb999 5y agoso because Jeff Bezo's is rich, I can steal?
- _trampeltier 5y agoNo because I'm so poor and nothing to loose. If I had something to loose I wouldn't do stupid things. My life in jail might even better than on the street.
- mulletbum 5y agoNo because a class structure only has rich and poor with less and less middle ground, stealing becomes necessity to some. Even if immoral.
- glogla 5y agoIs stealing from someone like Walmart, who post record profits every year, pay employees so little they are on food stamps, engage in union busting etc etc really immoral?
- edflsafoiewq 5y agoYes.
- glogla 5y agoSo Walmart profit is more important to you than people not starving?
- edflsafoiewq 5y agoWalmart's profits have no bearing on the fact that stealing is immoral.
- glogla 5y agoCalling your personal morality a fact seems bit over the top.
- sumthinprofound 5y agoWalmart has paid over $1.4 billion in wage theft settlements and fines.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoAnd that also is immoral. However, that does not make it moral to steal from them.
- sieabahlpark 5y ago
- erik_seaberg 5y agoIf you want food, robbing the very people bringing in food is worse than robbing random strangers.
- glogla 5y agoWalmart is not people, Walmart is a billion dollar company and it is not bringing food, it is selling it for profit. Stealing from a company is a matter of balance sheet, while stealing from people means a real someone (as opposed to a abstract corporate entity) is actually going to miss something. Moreover, Walmart would throw the food away anyway, if nobody bought it.
- threatofrain 5y agoWhy don't they just eat minced pork?
- twofornone 5y agoThe vast majority of these people are not stealing out of desperation. This is just the intersection of shitty culture and insufficient enforcement. >They come in every day, sometimes twice a day, with laundry bags and just load up on stuff,” the Post quoted a store employee saying We've all seen the videos. When egregious behavior like this goes unpunished and is publicized, there's no shortage of unscrupulous thieves who will line up for an easy score. There is always a subset of the population which only follows laws out of fear of punishment.
- otikik 5y agoIt sounds like you are saying that your sources for this claim: > The vast majority of these people are not stealing out of desperation Is that “you have seen some videos”. From where I stand, that doesn’t look like a very strong base on which to build upon.