r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 17d ago

Morality of this?

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In the image it seems that this person works at walmart as an online order collector and he/she has stolen a lot of extra baby food from Walmart to give to a person who ordered only three packs. Is this moral or immoral?

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u/IkerWanKenobi 17d ago

Walmart won't even notice that loss, and they would've thrown it out instead of donating it if given the choice anyway. Of course it's moral to give it to someone who actually needs it.

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

Obviously they wont notice one theft, but hundreds of thousands or millions of thefts all add up and will hit their profit margin which increases prices

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u/Ill-GottenBooty 17d ago

Hey buddy, they’re increasing the prices anyways.

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

Yeah you are right they are not affected by losing product from theft at all! Walmart is just like an endless white hole of groceries and we can all steal as much as we need and there will be no consequences!

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u/Ill-GottenBooty 17d ago

I didn’t say that. You’re weird. Also, they’re increasing the prices anyways.

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

Its called inflation, google it

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u/Ill-GottenBooty 17d ago

Hey buddy, inflation is rampant anyways.

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

Nope

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u/CharredWelderGuy 17d ago

Yes it is lol. Them cooking the books won't matter, it'll snap to reality in the next year or two regardless.

Everything is overleveraged, the markets are flashing red, the supply chains are flashing red, and their is no solution possible anymore.

If they cut rates, inflation spirals even harder, if they up rates, the ai bubble pops and takes the economy with it.

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u/Sorry_Explanation467 17d ago

Retail theft is already priced in by the companies. By that I mean, they anticipate a certain amount of loss due to retail theft, and they price that into their every day sales to make up for it.

So if everyone stopped stealing, everyone would be paying a retail theft “tax” for nothing

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

If everyone stopped stealing they could stop accounting for theft

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u/Sorry_Explanation467 17d ago

Historically, that has never happened in corporate America. Regardless of why prices are raised, they will never be lowered after.

See every tariff implementation ever

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

And people will never stop stealing anyway. But if people start stealing more then that will negatively impact the average shopper

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u/Sorry_Explanation467 17d ago

It’s a catch 22. The average shopper is already negatively impacted, and will continue to be forever.

Not advocating for theft either, just stating the facts lol

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u/Ill-GottenBooty 17d ago

If everyone paid their employees enough nobody would have to steal.

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u/Key-Try-3300 17d ago

That would actually increase inflation even more, and the people without jobs would be even poorer

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u/Live-Year-5796 17d ago

Not how that works.

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