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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #90 on: January 09, 2013, 02:18:06 am »
Apart from the fact that earlier you said "I generally advocate stealing more than a pack of gum". Which is advocating stealing, rather than simply not caring about it.

The problem with communism and seizing the means of production is that directed economies don't work.


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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #91 on: January 09, 2013, 02:35:33 am »
Apart from the fact that earlier you said "I generally advocate stealing more than a pack of gum". Which is advocating stealing, rather than simply not caring about it.

That was unclear of me. I am apathetic towards petty theft.

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Communism is not a command economy. Not even the USSR, China, etc ever claim/ed to be communist societies. And for all the faults of those countries they managed to created industrialised economies out of some of the most backwards nations in the world.

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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #92 on: January 09, 2013, 03:09:58 am »
Apart from the fact that earlier you said "I generally advocate stealing more than a pack of gum". Which is advocating stealing, rather than simply not caring about it.

That was unclear of me.

Bullshit.  You outright said you advocate it.  It was as clear as a cloudless day in the middle of the desert.

Hey, you know what else exploits workers?  Communism!

You can be for capitalism and against the exploitation of workers.  Theft, however, is exploitation as well.  Including piracy.

You are against corporates stealing and getting away with it and yet you claim that you are apathetic towards petty theft.  Even taking your statement at face value, it is still a complete and utter hypocrisy.

I am against petty theft.  I am also against corporate theft -- and the law SHOULD crack down on it.  The fact it doesn't isn't because of "capitalism", it's because of corruption, which is a different matter entirely.
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #93 on: January 09, 2013, 03:18:59 am »
Залиште хороший товариш один. Це не те, він буде знати краще, якщо ви з ним сперечатися. Але це забавно. Так продовжуватися.

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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #94 on: January 09, 2013, 09:50:35 am »

Technically my beef is with capitalism, companies are simply a way for individuals to control their property (means of production, not your toothbrush, house, car, etc). My beef with capitalism is the exploitation of workers, the periodic crises(es?) it falls into, the inevitable wars and the racism and sexism that support the system.

Interesting. I'm sorry I don't have more right now. I'm trying to figure out which government and/or economic practice (not model) that doesn't have those very same problems. Which system in practice doesn't have corruption built in.

All that aside, I find it odd you can separate taking that which does not belong to you as stealing and not stealing. Be it a pack of gum from a store or a nick knack off your shelf at home.
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #95 on: January 09, 2013, 11:37:08 am »
Items in a store do not belong to the workers there, they belong to whoever owns the store. Stealing does not take money from the workers but the owner.

Except the owner will find a way to keep his profits the same to make up for things like stealing. That means cutting worker hours. I've witnessed this multiple times in stores where my mom worked.
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #96 on: January 09, 2013, 11:39:24 am »
Items in a store do not belong to the workers there, they belong to whoever owns the store. Stealing does not take money from the workers but the owner.

Except the owner will find a way to keep his profits the same to make up for things like stealing. That means cutting worker hours. I've witnessed this multiple times in stores where my mom worked.

Or they cut wages, if the workers were above minimum wage anyway.
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #97 on: February 28, 2013, 06:18:15 pm »
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« Reply #98 on: February 28, 2013, 08:47:52 pm »
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #99 on: February 28, 2013, 08:51:02 pm »

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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #100 on: February 28, 2013, 09:04:12 pm »
It should at least explain a few of the jokes a lot of people didn't get. Only ever saw a few episodes of that myself, but they were pretty amusing.

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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #102 on: March 01, 2013, 06:52:05 pm »


Yes, this is real.

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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #103 on: March 04, 2013, 10:26:33 am »
Judging from the reviews and recommended books, it's apparently a parody set up like a birding guide. But with shopping carts.
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Re: People who steal shopping carts piss me off
« Reply #104 on: March 04, 2013, 06:02:12 pm »
I want it. I will run around the shopping centre carpark with khakis, that book, binoculars, and i will talk to myself in a British accent
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