Do you really expect someone to shoplift 20 pounds of groceries? Ofc people in need are going to flip a pricy item and buy necessities.

  • RageAgainstMrClean [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Once you’re sufficiently wealthy, you’ll have never had the experience of selling your nice things for money. They associate selling expensive amenities with addiction. So anyone stealing an expensive item is stealing it to keep. And consumer electronics are ways that pricks signal their wealth, so poors having that stuff without “earning” it pisses them off.

    And fuck it, if you can manage to shoplift a new iPhone and wanna keep it for yourself, show your bougie ass off. This is doubly true when the expensive thing is something that will last longer than replacing the cheap version of that thing over and over