FUCK ALL SHOPLIFTERS!!
People who defend shoplifting from stores. I had a minor debate with someone who was pridefully going on about how we should steal from stores to affect the profits of the CEO and “The Man”.
I had to inform them that stealing from stores won’t necessarily affect the payroll of the corporation. It will only harm the stores and the employees inside. Because each and every store is operating on a budget of their own and what they sell determines said budget.
So if groups of people decided to steal from that store, sapping up the budget and hurting sales, then it’s going to hurt the pay of the people working there. Making shoplifters look both like an asshole and a dumbass in one.
Shoplifting also results in increased prices for the paying customers - that’s how these businesses recover their profits. So they may not hurt the corporations but they do hurt their employees, but most of all they hurt you
I’m more concerned with the people getting killed for trying to feed their family. They are the victims here.
Corporations are literally already charging as much as they thing they can get away. That’s the upper limit on the abusive monopolistic consumer goods we’re buying. Weather someone steals a few items isn’t going to effect the price. They’re charging as much as they possibly can, all the time. That’s the hell we live in.