5 ms·

Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft." And that theft is entirely justifiable as t

Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft." And that theft is entirely justifiable as these corporate grocery chains are effectively stealing from all of us with this greed disguised as inflation bullshit.

Georgelemental 4y ago
Were they somehow not greedy before? What changed?
- g8oz 4y ago
  Opportunities for price gouging increased due to supply chain disruptions. This article lays out arguments for and against this theory: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-gouging-inflation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-go...
  - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
    > supply chain disruptions Government meddling in the market though lockdowns, embargoes, and other limiting of supplies.
    - midasuni 4y ago
      If not government you mean China, sure. Massive supply chain problems. The Russian government invading a sovereign country didn’t help either.
      - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
        I can't dictate policy to foreign nations but I can lament my own countries inane policies on these issues. Regarding the coof: No need to go all Papers Please and ban people from working, fine and arrest people traveling more than 1km from home, or repress morally justified protest over those actions. It was the most horrendous expansion of government power I've seen, probably since the patriot act. Regarding russia: No need to harm energy markets more than war normally does with embargoes and destruction of infrastructure. No need to deplete local stockpiles by giving them away to foreign civilians rather than your own. No need steal people's money to give away.
Forestessential 4y ago
the headline should read, "Bad behavior is excused for the poor". pantries and welfare exists. stealing is not necessary. most of these sort of people cant cook well and resort to packaged bs
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  In my experience, bad behavior is excused for the rich. I suspect the poor have finally caught on.
  - ryan93 4y ago
    Feel free to move to one of the countries without many rich.
- quickthrowman 4y ago
  “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” -Anatole France
  - marksbrown 4y ago
    This from a lousy novel about the impossibility of divorce. The phrase you're uttering is from a flighty aristocrat who in the novel sees virtue in poverty. Perhaps in stead of pithy phrases we could engage with the topic at hand?
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
aimbivalent 4y ago
[flagged]
- pastacacioepepe 4y ago
  > Whenever socialist policies, in this case the central planning of credit and interest You are conflating centralization with socialism. Mario Draghi is the centralist banker behind QE and he is a fervent neoliberal. He has nothing to do with socialism. > This is the Soviet Union playbook to a T, except they would always blame "wreckers" or reactionaries. Crazy how distracted I've been lately, I've lived in a communist economy without noticing. I must have missed the proletarian expropriation somehow. Jokes aside, it's interesting how people like to call the current system socialist when it doesn't work, capitalist when it does.
  - aimbivalent 4y ago
    [flagged]
- temp10298385 4y ago
  I strongly disagree that QE policies and central banking are socialist. In fact, I would argue that QE, as it has been enacted since its inception after the collapse of Japan’s credit bubble, is closer to the opposite since it strengthens capital’s control over labour. The mechanisms of which are asset price inflation, financialization, austerity which reduces spending on public goods, poor wage growth, and so on. These are all examples of capital increasing its power while labour loses power. I agree the policy choice is terrible, but I don’t see how they can be construed as socialist. Also, keep in mind that the theoreticial justifications for these policies do not originate in socialist/marxist economics. Nor are the technocrats that implement them motivated by socialist theory. It seems the only connection that exist is that central banking is central (so is the military) and that marxist-leninist regimes make heavy use of centralism. Central banking predates all such regimes, by the way. But that seems like a superficial connection that does nothing to elucidate. I disagree heavily with QE but labeling it socialist does not help in understanding it so that I may effectively oppose it.
gfdsgfsdgfs 4y ago
You should encourage this behavior in your neighborhood. Watch them all disappear

Georgelemental 4y ago

Were they somehow not greedy before? What changed?

g8oz 4y ago
Opportunities for price gouging increased due to supply chain disruptions. This article lays out arguments for and against this theory: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-gouging-inflation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-go...
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
  > supply chain disruptions Government meddling in the market though lockdowns, embargoes, and other limiting of supplies.
  - midasuni 4y ago
    If not government you mean China, sure. Massive supply chain problems. The Russian government invading a sovereign country didn’t help either.
    - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
      I can't dictate policy to foreign nations but I can lament my own countries inane policies on these issues. Regarding the coof: No need to go all Papers Please and ban people from working, fine and arrest people traveling more than 1km from home, or repress morally justified protest over those actions. It was the most horrendous expansion of government power I've seen, probably since the patriot act. Regarding russia: No need to harm energy markets more than war normally does with embargoes and destruction of infrastructure. No need to deplete local stockpiles by giving them away to foreign civilians rather than your own. No need steal people's money to give away.

Forestessential 4y ago

the headline should read, "Bad behavior is excused for the poor". pantries and welfare exists. stealing is not necessary. most of these sort of people cant cook well and resort to packaged bs

hotpotamus 4y ago
In my experience, bad behavior is excused for the rich. I suspect the poor have finally caught on.
- ryan93 4y ago
  Feel free to move to one of the countries without many rich.
quickthrowman 4y ago
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” -Anatole France
- marksbrown 4y ago
  This from a lousy novel about the impossibility of divorce. The phrase you're uttering is from a flighty aristocrat who in the novel sees virtue in poverty. Perhaps in stead of pithy phrases we could engage with the topic at hand?
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

aimbivalent 4y ago

[flagged]

pastacacioepepe 4y ago
> Whenever socialist policies, in this case the central planning of credit and interest You are conflating centralization with socialism. Mario Draghi is the centralist banker behind QE and he is a fervent neoliberal. He has nothing to do with socialism. > This is the Soviet Union playbook to a T, except they would always blame "wreckers" or reactionaries. Crazy how distracted I've been lately, I've lived in a communist economy without noticing. I must have missed the proletarian expropriation somehow. Jokes aside, it's interesting how people like to call the current system socialist when it doesn't work, capitalist when it does.
- aimbivalent 4y ago
  [flagged]
temp10298385 4y ago
I strongly disagree that QE policies and central banking are socialist. In fact, I would argue that QE, as it has been enacted since its inception after the collapse of Japan’s credit bubble, is closer to the opposite since it strengthens capital’s control over labour. The mechanisms of which are asset price inflation, financialization, austerity which reduces spending on public goods, poor wage growth, and so on. These are all examples of capital increasing its power while labour loses power. I agree the policy choice is terrible, but I don’t see how they can be construed as socialist. Also, keep in mind that the theoreticial justifications for these policies do not originate in socialist/marxist economics. Nor are the technocrats that implement them motivated by socialist theory. It seems the only connection that exist is that central banking is central (so is the military) and that marxist-leninist regimes make heavy use of centralism. Central banking predates all such regimes, by the way. But that seems like a superficial connection that does nothing to elucidate. I disagree heavily with QE but labeling it socialist does not help in understanding it so that I may effectively oppose it.

gfdsgfsdgfs 4y ago

You should encourage this behavior in your neighborhood. Watch them all disappear