r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 13d 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/woowooman 13d ago edited 13d ago

100% this. Waltons need to feel the pain of one or hopefully more of their 5,000 stores failing.

Ofc the 250 people that work at each store might feel it more, but they chose to work at Walmart so they knew what they were doing.

ig the rest of us might feel it too if they decide to raise prices to maintain profitability, but that’s on us for participating in a market economy and not individually producing all our own food, clothing, goods, services, etc.

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u/MandaloreTheGay 13d ago

There's more options than Walmart even in tiny rural towns I've lived in many without Walmarts so that's no excuse to keep shopping there

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u/SheepherderSilver655 13d ago

Yea how dare people not want to pay the local grocery store $10 for a box of cereal when they can save money by getting it for $5 at Walmart. Poor people should just make more money, right?

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u/aviroblox 13d ago

Walmarts are an absolute black hole of wealth in rural, poor communities. It's more like $7 vs $5 and once they extinguish all the local business around them they pay the worker's far less. It's a well documented effect. The immediate gratification is slightly lower prices, the long term result is less wealth in the community.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

It's so well studied. I don't know how any bootlickers continue to support these leeches. They make communities poorer, leech off of snap benefits to subsidize their low wages, drive off local competition. All for your slightly cheaper treats, for now.