Dewey McBrewster

Local stores have very little locked up here. My area has industry, which provides wages. Wages produce taxes. Taxes are used for police. Through surveilance police arrest shoplifters.

Complacency of theft only backslides society. I will agree that a waning industry, or that our hyper-fixation on growth effects society negatively, but that’s another discussion.

If someone offers a free item, someone will take it whether they need that item or not, whether they can afford that item or not. Nature takes the path of least resistance. It’s easier to take than to work.

As such, there is no incentive to work if the item is free. If there is no incentive to work nothing gets made. Yet people will need things so you’re forced to make items people need. Which makes items not really free after all to the dismay of many an anti-capitalist.

Regardless, there will always be some percentage of the population that will feel above the rest, mainly due to mental deficiency or addiction, independent of the economic system. For punishment of theft I would prefer to see forced induction into the municipal workforce for 5 years, flat sentence with a minimum wage earned in municipal bonds, held in a community barracks with a tapered reintegration into society. A sort of forced communism for those who can’t cope.

I’m ready for the downvotes.

Maybe, Pixelfed.

You know, I’ve heard RFK Jr admit to some some pretty fucked up shit… but, I’ll take honesty over the lie through your teeth, sell out to the highest bidder mentality any time. Admitting that, “yes it was me who put a bear carcass in Central Park, or that, yes I have done drugs and or had addiction” takes an amount of courage that few in the public spotlight are willing to take, and for that I feel admiration and wish others could be as forthcoming.

If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we’ll just have to start dynamic shopping.