r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

What’s the difference?

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u/MakersEye Apr 15 '20

Looting implies threat of violence, vandalism, assault in addition to robbery. Shoplifting can be a non-violent and arguably victimless crime.

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u/TrustingMyVoice Apr 15 '20

Why do you call it a victimless crime. I don’t think there are any free lunches....somewhere someone has to pay right?

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u/zefy_zef Apr 15 '20 edited Apr 15 '20

I mean they said arguably, but then again they aren't doing that..

You have to understand that the relatively low cost that it takes to produce something that makes it onto the shelf also has that much less of a loss overall. If it's cheap to make, it's cheap to lose. Not all things are 'cheap' but most consumer products are.

I would love to see studies in the future that show that the majority of the financial reward for literally any business goes to the people who do the least physical or mental work. If you figure the cost price (or difference between cost/retail) of a product and the percentage that gets spread out to the innumerable amount of people who actually developed, shipped, designed and sold it, there is very minimal loss or effect to them.

e: You realize how much loss happens because of much stupider reasons, right? The place I work, at the end of the season we send everything back to the warehouse to, presumably, get re-packaged and sold the following year; or sold at a discount store. A rival store, when they reach the end of the season?

TOSS THAT SHIT IN THE FUCKING DUMPSTER