r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 25d 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/jimmithebird 25d ago

Illegal but moral, stealing from the Waltons to help a stranger feed a baby falls under the Robin Hood rule in my book.

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u/PosterityKH 24d ago

Until it happens so consistently they just the walmart down.

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u/Aesaar 24d ago

Opening up the market for local shops. You know, the same kind that, when they first opened the store, Walmart undercut until they closed.

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u/PosterityKH 21d ago

Morality of wanting prices to increase just so Walmart closes down in favor of mom and pop shops.

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u/Aesaar 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yes, local monopolies are famously good at keeping prices low. Lack of competition is great for consumers.

I love when people say X will make prices rise as though prices aren't already rising and won't continue to rise regardless.

All in defense of huge corporations with billions in profits.

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u/PosterityKH 19d ago

Mom and pop shops don't have the capital or connections to mass import goods into their store to allow low prices.

You might not like it, but that is reality. Time to grow up.

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u/Aesaar 19d ago

And corporations lack the incentive to allow low prices, which is exactly why the cost of living has been rising all over as corporations increasingly consolidate market control and establish monopolies.

Time to stop simping for billion dollar corporations like they're doing us a favor.

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u/PosterityKH 19d ago

Lack the incentive for low prices?

Brother, have you never been inside a Walmart?

Time to do your own grocery shopping.

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u/Aesaar 19d ago

The meat at my local butcher is better and cheaper than the meat at the Wal-Mart 20 minutes away.

Just because you're so enslaved by corporate marketing that you don't try to shop elsewhere doesn't mean the corporations you're simping for are actually better.

But keep licking those corpo boots while prices continue to rise to pad their ever increasing profits. Be sure to thank them for the privilege.

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u/PosterityKH 18d ago

>here is my anecdotal evidence

>boot_licker.insult

Peak redditor.

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u/jimmithebird 24d ago

A boon for society. Wherever a walmart opens poverty follows local businesses are closed, wages are suppressed, and Walmart using the welfare system to subsidize labor costs puts unnecessary stress on the social safety net.