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by ozim 910 days ago
There are people in Amsterdam that steal bikes only to sell them for 10Eur.

I just don’t understand why would anyone do that but I am software dev working remotely it doesn’t make sense in „my world” - it most likely makes sense in someone’s else world.

2 comments

If you want quick money, you sell things cheap. If you're addicted to drugs and need a quick high, you do easy crimes, and anything that's easy for money (including prostitution).
Thanks for explanation. But that was rhetorical question to illustrate the point that one might not see whole picture and incentives are also hidden.

But I didn’t want to spell out specific examples for stealing source code as the same for bikes to leave it up for readers.

Opioids are a hell of a drug