#petty theft

anarchist-pug:

anyway stealing things because you can’t afford basic necessities is one thing (that should never needto happen in the first place but that’s another topic for another day), but if you shoplift just for the fuck of it or because you really want a video game or some overpriced makeup and mommy said no, then you’re an absolute piece of entitled shit and you owe an apology to every minimum wage worker whose job you endangered (and possibly lost) by stealing on their shift.

inb4 the “stealing from large corporations is okay uwu fuck capitalism!” crowd gets here, walmart really isn’t going to miss that $20 bottle of perfume. like seriously. you’re not hurting the ceos of large corporations with your petty theft. they expect a certain amount of theft every year and adjust accordingly. their million-dollar salaries are unharmed. it’s negligible to them. the only people you’re directly affecting are the managers who have to answer for the loss to corporate and the minimum wage workers whose hours those managers have to cut in response. 

stealing things you want because you want them doesn’t make you woke or punk. it just makes you a selfish, entitled prick.