If only there were some way to substantially reduce the incentive for theft of consumer goods.
What could motivate people to theft? They must need something awfully badly. Perhaps fixing the underlying requirements could help.
What could motivate people to theft? They must need something awfully badly. Perhaps fixing the underlying requirements could help.
Curious how you reach this conclusion from the point that they do it for money?
> They want money
> It's just a job to them.
That's pretty much exactly how most people meet their needs: do a job for money. That they are stealing things other than what is directly needed is a distraction from the point that they are stealing to meet their needs.
Steal baby formula to sell on the black market? May or may not be meeting needs, but it definitely isn’t direct!
Yes, this is my point. It can't be concluded that they are not stealing to meet their needs.
Well, right, but that's not what I was refuting.
So yes, I am refuting what you are saying.
You're not. You acknowledge my point
> Stealing to meet abstract secondary needs
But do not refute that this is the reason for the theft, only argue that it is wrong regardless. My only point is that the theft is "a matter of meeting peoples needs".
> criminal for a reason
I'm not sure of your overall point. Stealing bread to eat is also criminal for the same reasons.
Unless you think anyone was proposing they did it to set it on fire instead?
Needs are also often defined arbitrarily, and many people steal because they ‘need’ more drugs, for example. So, who cares?
I thought they'd be defined as real needs like food, warmth, safety. That seems a reasonable assumption.
> then there is no point
No, there is a point. The commenter I initially replied to wrote
> This isn't a matter of meeting peoples needs
My point is that this statement seems to be false for the reasons that I've given.
Kleptomania
> They must need something awfully badly.
Dopamine
> Perhaps fixing the underlying requirements could help.
Prosecution (not just lip service)
Desperation leads to crime, true.
But also true: a lack of societal norms leads to crime. Any time we advocate or demonstrate disrespect, cheating, injustice, cruelty, unwarranted rule-breaking, doxing, or any kind of mob mentality we are contributing to it.
And yes your favorite political villains are all guilty of this, but we need to start with ourselves and the people close to us.
Wages have stagnated for decades as prices have increased. What possible solution is there other than to address the biggest elephant in the room.