Remember, folks: if you saw someone shoplift food? No. You didn't.
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Now imagine every tenth customer starts stealing.
Now the company has to increase prices to compensate for the loss of profits. We all start paying for the shoplifters, ridiculous, right?
But who are we really protecting by paying more, though? The shoplifters or the company? Who's REALLY the parasite here? The rich company or the person forced to steal?
EDIT because I might've not made my point clear - if we eliminate the company and replace it with public services, there would be noone to take profit and thus no need to hike the prices.
Privatization is evil. The idea of profit is parasitic.
We all start paying for the shoplifters, ridiculous, right?
A good argument for reducing inequality through higher taxes.
Exactly my point, thank you
Dear God, think of the profits!!!
I am thinking of all the profits!
And if you see anyone shoplifting from Walmart, no you didn't.
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They've been doing this for the last 15 years, people steal them and sell them in pubs. Premium steaks are not feeding world hunger.
But also the beef and cattle industry has been quietly and carefully raising the price of beef, and especially steak, ever since the pandemic and hoping no one would call them out for their blatant price gouging.
Part of this has been framed as "steak is a luxury item and so we can price it out of the reach of the poor". Pair that with government programs silently removing steak as a buyable item on food stamp and public food programs.
Meanwhile the cattle industry has been posting all time record high profits for the last 5 years.
Ironic that the people whining about their tax dollars being used for poor people to buy steaks don't give a shit about all the tax dollars that go to subsidizing the beef industry.
How much can someone reasonably make from doing this? I feel like it would still end up being around minimum wage, if not under.
How the fuck would I know?
Exactly! You don't. Your comment seems to imply that they are either getting disproportionately high income from reselling premium steaks (i.e. "not feeding world hunger" = only one person benefits from a large sum of money), or that that the income is very low (i.e. "not feeding world hunger" = you're not making enough money to feed yourself), but the latter doesn't make sense because any non-zero amount of money will get you more food than zero money. I don't know if I'm missing another interpretation.
Steaks have always been a shoplifters choice. They're expensive, fit in your pants, drug dealers will take them
In many other countries people are much poorer and don't end up stealing steaks from supermarkets. The issue is not finance but collapse of societal trust and Britain for once feels what they've been committing around the world for centuries.
I saw an old guy putting cans of Klik in his haversack. Then I saw him put a bag of carrots in as well. He also grabbed an 8-pack of double-A batteries and that's when I turned him in. /s
When working people finally start acting like rich ppl.
meat is heavily stolen in alot of chains too.
£7.25 is super expensive, I'd never buy a steak for more than £5 and even then I don't buy them usually.
Maybe 7.25 steaks?
Must be food stealing immigrants /s.
On the other hand maybe meat is an extreme, unsustainable privilege that's inherently based on torturing/murdering animals and destroying the planet.
That sounds like something meat would say. You just don't want us eating meat because you are made of meat lol
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