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.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, because rental businesses don’t exist.

      Just own it, coward.

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        1 year ago

        how? most stuff is just released on streaming platforms, or on on-demand shit like that YT movie crap, owning stuff is more difficult than ever, the only real way to own your software/files is to pirate them, AKA making an offline copy.

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          1 year ago

          I mean own the thieving nature.

          Spite is a perfectly acceptable justification for stealing from terrible companies.