It doesn't matter what kind of flexibility you have. Poor people also can't steal cars --- and virtually none of them do. An argument could be made (probably only on a message board) that between being forced into petty theft and forced to be a cog in a criminal conspiracy, the petty theft option is more justifiable --- all the proceeds address a real need, and the action itself is "honest" about the tradeoff being made. But we have no trouble recognizing theft as theft, even when done out of economic necessity.