[bsnnkv]

> There's just no sense of "social contract" when interacting with a self-checkout. It's much easier to rationalize theft as merely striking back at a large, faceless corporation when you're interacting with a machine.

I wonder how much this rationalization is influenced by the growing public belief that corporations themselves have broken the social contract / have not bound themselves by any kind of social contract for a long time now

[dns_snek]

I don't steal even though I share the sentiment, but if I didn't have the means I could see myself using that as a very easy rationalization.

Having to deal with soaring grocery prices while observing record grocery store profits has about the same effect as pouring gasoline on a fire.