[satsuma]

shoplifting absolute necessities and life essentials is a morally light grey area. it's stealing, but when the alternative is starvation, there's a bit of leeway.

for everything else, it becomes this twisted worldview where shoplifters believe they're owed something by "the system." or because it's walmart/target instead of mom and pop's corner shop, it's like they're the modern day robin hood. the ability of our brains to think themselves into defending its own behavior, as immoral as it may be, is fascinating.

[bowsamic]

They absolutely should feel they are owed something by the system. America (for example) has built amazing wealth extremely quickly using capitalism, but the distribution is terrible. It is totally fine for the very poor to steal from the very wealthy in a system that makes it extremely difficult, tedious, or tiring for many people to even live a comfortable life legally