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.
You’re saying people will steal because they can? Do you?
Are we talking about the poor, or the billionares finding every possible loophole on taxes and regulation?
Small/Societal theft is not exactly hard to get away with. It’s a lot easier than most professions, but then a lot of engineers and scientists don’t get into the business for the money. People do difficult things for the hell of it, as long as they arent punished for it, and sometimes even if they are. Nature takes the path of least resistance? Fucking really?
The reason surveillance is increasing, is because the NEED to steal, is increasing. And hence spending more to prevent it is making more sense.
Food isn’t optional. If you decrease wages, theft goes up. No matter how hard you police it.
Your area doesn’t need to lock things up because the amount of theft is too small to be worth spending on to prevent. That is as it should be.
If the police in your area is wasting their time on catching grocery thieves, you’re already spending your taxes wrong.
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.
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You’re saying people will steal because they can? Do you?
Are we talking about the poor, or the billionares finding every possible loophole on taxes and regulation?
Small/Societal theft is not exactly hard to get away with. It’s a lot easier than most professions, but then a lot of engineers and scientists don’t get into the business for the money. People do difficult things for the hell of it, as long as they arent punished for it, and sometimes even if they are. Nature takes the path of least resistance? Fucking really?
The reason surveillance is increasing, is because the NEED to steal, is increasing. And hence spending more to prevent it is making more sense.
Food isn’t optional. If you decrease wages, theft goes up. No matter how hard you police it.
Your area doesn’t need to lock things up because the amount of theft is too small to be worth spending on to prevent. That is as it should be.
If the police in your area is wasting their time on catching grocery thieves, you’re already spending your taxes wrong.
First-world mentality right here. If it wasn’t for people like you we could be more like Venezuela and Nicaragua