Petty theft and similar crimes are almost always borne out of desperation. When you can’t feed your family, have zero job prospects, or feel like the world won’t allow you more than the barest subsistence, people turn to crime.
Vast majority of people aren’t going to start mugging strangers when they are doing OK just because they want more. Personal risk of harm is just too great. Those types of thieves generally perpetrate white-collar and financial crimes.
Bottom left yellow person would be swayed if his initial motives were real. But the last motive shows yellow person is actually desperate, so while increasing guilt, is unlikely to fix the core issue and sway them.
There are also people who are desperate because they’re addicted to drugs, and safety net programs aren’t gonna do much about that. Not really a counterargument, just a sidebar.
The pro-theft communities are not going to like that bottom left panel.
Are there pro-theft communities that support stealing directly from other (not super rich) individuals? I don’t think corporations are victims of the oppressive system, so stealing from them is still ethically congruent
Small businesses can be such victims.
Seriously, the amount of people who assume that insurance will take care of everything is astonishing. Like have you never dealt with a insurance claim before? And not to mention the premium increases. Small businesses get fucked over by theft.
Which is why you almost never see them advocate theft from such places
That is a good example, thanks!
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To be fair, if much of the money goes straight up the chain to corporate, then stealing is still hurting corporate’s bottom line. It’s just that it’s also doing a lot of damage to the local branch, which could be hurting locals and creating food deserts.
(I’m not a theft advocate, btw.)
It’s common in restaurants, but not so much in supermarkets. I think the biggest/most well known supermarket that franchises is sav a lot.
Safeway, Kroger, King Sooper etc are not and in fact own multiple brands. Kroger for instance owns not Only Kroger stores but Fred Meyer and King Soopers and a few others.
They’re free for the pickings as far as I’m concerned along with Walmart, I might not steal myself but I’ll be turning the other way rq if I see someone else doing it
Franchising big supermarkets is totally unheard of in my country.
You’re still shafting poor people when you steal stuff from local shops, even if they belong to large corporations. They usually start locking up items that are frequently stolen and sometimes even close down entirely. This is how food deserts are made.
I don’t think that’s the main problem contributing to food deserts. In my city, zoning regulations and anticompetitive contracts have created them… so, shitty business practices and nimbyism.
It’s not the main problem by a long shot but it’s certainly impacting existing businesses. For some of them it’s just the final nail in the coffin.
Dumbass nimby boomers and zoning are a whole other can of worms. If you can spare the free time to annoy your city council with your pet peeves (which said boomer nimbys often can) you can get a lot of things done.
I would always see and hear about poor people having their homes broken into and things stolen and I was always like “Why don’t you rob someone who’s rich?”
Because rich people have better security. Which makes it harder. 😮💨
Working as intended.
The rich probably live farther away than you do too. So the thief would have to make an investment in additional time as well as resources for travel. If you’re a thief of opportunity, you likely don’t have the cashflow to over that additional overhead.
Lol. Good to delineate which crimes are activism
It is. It’s how you get laws changed.
It’s also how you destroy the environment of the Niger River Delta.
You want to take out the pumps, not the pipelines.
(Calm down NSA, I’m saying this purely in jest)
I get what you’re saying, but there’s practical considerations. There’s just too many pumps for that to be feasible. Only a couple pipes though.
On the other hand, if you blow up all the pumps, it takes more resources to replace those than it would to simply repair a couple pipes.
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Why tf would you steal from a person when there’s perfectly evil companies to steal from?
That bottom left comic would actually play out with blue guy getting stabbed, and his wallet taken.
That bottom left comic would actually play out with blue guy getting stabbed, and his wallet taken.
By someone who had just said that they’re engaging in crime specifically for the activism angle?
No offense, but I don’t think you’re qualified to know what would actually play out when one politically aware bipedal dog tries to mug another.
No offense, but I don’t think you’re qualified to know what would actually play out when one politically aware bipedal dog tries to mug another.
Brand new sentence.
Touche, politically aware dogs aren’t people. Lol
blue guy getting stabbed, and his wallet taken
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
His guts wide.
Blue would have been stabbed at “you’re a common criminal now”, probably.
Chad Blue Furry vs the Virgin Yellow Furry
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