I have legit thrown down with shoplifters I might be a wagie but I at least have my pride and honour
Damn, bro, I'm sure :porky-happy: will notice you for saving him some paltry change. What's that? You're not doing it for him? You're potentially risking your life for some arbitrary sense of honor (likely instilled into you at a young age), despite most companies enforcing a "no heroes" policy? Shit.
I've seen this meme in particular ruffle feathers, especially in the kinds of spaces that repost fucking Stonetoss comics and transphobic fearmongering, occasionally spilling into outright fascist accounts. Similarly, they also decry the trend of "landlord hate". It makes the role of reactionary politics in bourgeois society so transparent.
Love the implicit mystification. Promoting crime. As if someone stealing bread is crime in the sense of making people feel unsafe. Like my day is ruined, I thought this was a nice neighborhood and then I saw someone not pay retail for bread. I'm going to have to move now because I fear my children might be exposed to someone I don't know not paying for a product at the store. Somehow stealing is a magical act in which it curses the area, causing property values to drop and people to leave. It's totally just not you and the rest of the suburbanites overreacting.
I would ask if a system in which people don't pay for bread, where it's legal to just take it, would be evil. But they would say yes because they're holding onto some 18th century brainworms about how commerce is a righteous act of god or something.