Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech

• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  During Walmart employee onboarding they literally have training on how to apply for government benefits. This is not hyperbole, it is fact. They pay their workers so little that the US taxpayers are forced to subsidize their business model through societal safety nets designed for true emergencies and need, not just corporate greed. But Walmart has managed to monetize that too.

  So fuck Walmart. See THAT theft first.

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• nephs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In our society people are acknowledged human through consumption, and that need is hammered onto our heads by ads and beauty norms everywhere.

  Belonging is a human need. Sometimes some cheap makeup is all it takes.

  But also, the rich people are stealing from us in so much worse ways. A rich teen stealing from a rich corporation is kind of karmaeic, and really, even if she was caught, nothing significant would happen, whilst a poor girl doing the same would suffer a lot more.

  Ergo, if you see something, no you didn’t.

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy gets it.

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• Iunnrais@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know that stealing is morally wrong no matter what. My rabbi taught that if a man steals to survive, the crime is not his, but of his community because they did not save him from poverty. That teaching really stuck with me. Yes, stealing indicates something is seriously wrong in the world, but there’s a big difference in where the evil lies— is it in the thief, or in the society?

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• atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stealing is morally wrong no matter what.

  🤡

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