…As you pass by 5 people at self-checkout doing tactical shoplifting.
Remember, if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.
Also Remember, stealing from publically traded corporations is stealing from sociopathic thieves that have no problem hurting vulnerable people to get what they want, in the name of
insatiable greed“rational self-interest.”They dictate the laws to their paid lackees in Congress. Equating legality with ethics or morality in this capitalist captured dystopia makes one a fool. Our laws are designed to defend the desires of property owners against the basic survival needs of human beings with nothing that our society has already catastrophically failed.
You can catch charges for the misdeed of feeding the homeless here.
(and to anyone who wants to chime in with “well feeding homeless people might make them linger, effecting property values which needs to be a consideration alongside feeding hungry poor people.” 🖕)
its not as catchy i gotta say
Fair
That’s just how the capitalists want you to think - that you committed a crime by not giving capitalists money.
The capitalists want you to think that all money is their money, and that you are committing a crime by getting in the way of their money.
I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t think that’s what the meme was meaning. I think it meant when you leave empty handed, it looks like you’re shoplifting. That makes you nervous and you start acting weird which makes you look even more suspicious and more nervous. Wash, rinse, and repeat till you get home and cry because social situations are awkward and hard and life would be so much easier if I was alone on a deserted island like Tom Hanks in that one movie.
… I might’ve lost track towards the end, but you get the idea.
Why do you hate the econony, Kermit?
Walking through customs at the airport
When I shop without a cart or basket, the mental energy it takes to not put something in my pocket so I can hold things better is a lot more than 0
I regularly put stuff in my pockets while im browsing. Sometimes I even pay for it.
One time I got trapped in a store because the door was behind the counter where the register was and a guy was sitting there the whole time. I decided not to buy anything, but I looked around for a while so I felt like he might question me. So I just kept pretending to look around which made it even more awkward to leave empty handed.
I think I decided not to buy anything after 20 minutes but spent a whole hour in there trying to figure out how to leave
Legend says he’s still stuck in that store to this day
I have obsessive guilt about silly things, but even I cannot comprehend why people would feel guilty about simply not buying something at a store.
It might look like you stole something. And the more you think that as you walk out the door, the more you start to look like you stole something.
It’s a consequence of our capitalist society, of how we’re not allowed to just exist in most places without buying or consuming something. About the only places we have left are sidewalks, public parks, libraries, maybe a large mall. Anywhere else and you can potentially be asked to leave if you’re not seen “doing” something or at least looking like you’re going to buy something after awhile. If the staff don’t care, you can “get away with it” (that is, get away with just existing), but more often than not you may be asked to leave. I’d try to test the theory out by just standing around for a few hours, but who actually has that kind of time?
But why would you want to hang out at a clothing store?
It’s a consequence of our capitalist society
It’s more a consequence of place and purpose. If you’re in a place and don’t use it for the usual purpose, then your motives will be questioned. A store is place to get items. Even if there was no exchange of money, but you went into the store and walked out without anything, it would appear odd.
Go brush your teeth at a library, stand on a sidewalk for a long period of time, ride a bike through a mall. All these things don’t cost money but they are still weird.
And for me the feeling is inversely proportional to the time spent there.
I’m looking for something very specific, they don’t have it, I leave. But man, does it seem I just went in real quick to steal something as fast as possible.
Take comfort in knowing the employees probably aren’t paid enough to care
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Those aren’t Kermit’s eyes!
This reminds me of how I this summer I went to a store only to discover that they don’t sell the ice cream I wanted to buy, so I just ended up buying some crackers to not feel akward. (but anyway, the crackers were good)
Me, who has 13 salamis tucked in his pants: Oh, it’s not wrong to steal? Whew. What a relief.
It’s fine since you brought them from home
Whether you doing it because you’re broke, or just love the thrill, remember:
Publix, Kroger’s, and Walmart heirs have all donated to neo-Nazi causes so steal from them the most.
All jokes aside.
Please people, do not actually steal from these stores. This is the quickest way to get arrested and end up with a criminal record.
The prosecutor is not going to give a damn what your reasons were for stealing so please keep that in mind.
A shoplifting community was created on lemmy a while ago (!shoplifting@lemmy.ml) and a link was posted on there with some info for those involving themselves in shoplifting.
https://lemmy.ml/post/302763 (use the webarchive link shared among the comments if the original doesn’t work)
Things that will also get you a criminal record:
Feeding the homeless
Giving water to voters
Public Assembly
Telling pigs to stop being pigs
Punching Nazis
I just leave without buying anything. Sometimes I go into a store just to use the restroom and then leave. It’s perfectly legal.
It’s not just legal—it’s not even impolite.
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Remember the american assumption of the internet
I would love to understand the psychology behind this feeling.
In my case I think it was being raised by an ex-Catholic. Whole lotta undeserved guilt trips in my household growing up!
Raised catholic here too, maybe catholic guilt but personally I think it’s more so the pervading idea that people implicitly aren’t allowed to exist in a space outside the home or offices unless they spend money and by walking out without buying anything bypasses the normal routine of going to a store to get something and going through some kind of checkout process.
yeah the more hours you spend outside without spending money the worse it gets
I’m afraid of other people.
😎
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a bitch
