• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    My (unpopular?) solution is to make sure the rest of society isn’t so desperate for food that they’re willing to rob a robot.

    In an unrelated suggestion, if youre in a grocery store and see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

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        Preach. Harsh penalties with no rehabilitation and an uncaring system with no safety net?

        If you can’t get a job and can’t eat without a job, who wouldn’t do crime?

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          And in so doing, they have a criminal record that makes it harder to get jobs, leading to a vicious cycle where they’re not employed due to a criminal record/recent imprisonment, and are forced to steal to survive, leading to another criminal record, etc.

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        No, most crime is due to a personal failure. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.

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      As someone who works in a grocery store, most of the people I see stealing are stealing stuff like makeup or drinks and junk food, not necessities. And our regular thieves spend hundreds on cigarettes a week, while still stealing whatever they want because they know they’ll get away with it.

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        Yeah, the cigarettes thing is a literal drug issue. The only thing that’s different between that a fentanyl is the smokes are not criminalized.

        We can’t expect our thieves and impoverished to be exactly rational and raid the staples, especially as we’ve engineered junk food to appeal to impulsivity.

        As for makeup I don’t have an easy explanation, though makeup is expensive and currently we do expect people to wear it rather than get accustomed to what folks look like without it. I was going to guess it’s fungible, but less so than brand-name laundry detergent. Tide is currency in the underground market.

        But yes, while for young people there might be a thrill in the act of stealing over buying, ultimately, when we have the capacity to fulfill our needs without careful budgeting and compromise, we’re glad to do things transactionally. Professional thieves struggle to make rent.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
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        They should sue the families for lost robot productivity too

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      I don’t think that’s at all unpopular, don’t a lot of beauty pageant women say how they want to end world hunger or poverty

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      If I still work in retail I would require far more money to notice things. Since my wage wasn’t tied to company profits what do I care.

      Although I do remember a time that somebody stole all the skittles. We got yelled at about that one.