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Should poverty ever be a defence against a charge of shoplifting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by tomasz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, always. Shoplifting from anything but a good worker-owned enterprise is entirely supportable assuming it's not just like a mom and pop with zero employees other than the mom and pop.

The entire existence of capitalism is tightly coupled with mass worker exploitation through the theft of the surplus value generated by workers.

Edit: I don't even care if they aren't in poverty, I still support them, especially from trash like Target.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

If a person needs to resort to stealing essential supplies, they're not a failure, it's society that's failing.