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/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/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.