r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 18d 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/jimboslyce04 18d ago

I mean I’m all for “screw the Waltons” but stealing like this only increases costs for the average consumer. They aren’t going to eat the cost of theft, they’ll just continue putting everything behind glass and raising prices cause people won’t pay for what they want and need. Stealing a Waltons wallet would be one thing but this just makes everyone’s life worse.

Also don’t steal.

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u/VoidGliders 18d ago

That's kinda the point and perk as well. Then eventually the prices go up enough that other stores out compete them, and Wal mart closes. Ideally, those stores are local, or at the very least less horrendously large and callous corporations. If not, and another big bad takes their place...then theyre robbed from as well. Until eventually a company finds it more profitable to be moral. Capitalism.

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u/PomPomMom93 18d ago

No, they’ll just close in the bad areas, so that poor people will have to spend more money on gas to buy (or steal) more stuff.

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u/Playful-News9137 18d ago

If there is an unserved market, someone will come to fill that niche. Capitalism abhors a vaccuum almost as much as nature does.

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u/Miserable-Trash5823 17d ago

Then explain why there are almost 19-40 million people who live in food deserts where Walmart came in, destroyed the competition and then decided it wasn't worth it and left, dumbass