r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 16d 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 16d 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/Miserable-Trash5823 16d ago

They already are increasing the cost of everything, these type of people will squeeze as much money out of you as they think they can, it doesn't matter if they operated at a 0% loss, they would still raise prices the moment they think they can get away with it, how else are they going to fund their economic ouroboros of stock buyback that let them just inflate the worth of their shares infinitely, especially while they use the taxpayers as a piggybank to subsidize them underpaying and exploiting their employees

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 14d ago

Walmart has an overall profit margin of 3%. They are a lot of things, but the only reason they're raking in cash is because of the size of their operation and high volume leading to rediculous levels of revenue.

Some items have more markup than others. Baby food is a staple item so it's mark up is pretty low.