Shoplifting is fun yo
Society stands at a crossroads: we should either stop with this dumb evo-psych stuff, or use it way more. You see, the reason I don't vacuum as often as I should is that my ancestors on the savannah got used to dust as they ran after zebras or something.
There's growing evidence that man and women shared roles of hunters and gatherers. Because obviously. Gender is a fuck.
There's this trend in history where more transient societies tend to not have very strictly defined gender roles, and the reason seems to be that it simply isn't practical. If the men are all injured or something then the women need to have experience doing their tasks, and vice/versa. It's agriculture that gives rise to specialization of labor, and the gender roles follow from that.
Haha yeah I heard they found a girl hunter skeleton recently
she was NOT a primitivist u dumbass, she was using TOOLS and WEAPONS, the disgusting technological creations of modern society
real primitivists chase their prey until they collapse from exhaustion and then eat them alive
most shoplifting is done to big market chains that steal more of the surplus value of their workers a year than they lose to stealing in decades, so its good actually
One time I went into a Goodwill and found like 15 sealed copies of Kirby’s Epic Yarn for $10 each. I bought as many as I could afford and returned them for $50 each to every walmart and target in the area.
My only regret is not shoplifting the games from goodwill in the first place
I like shopping at Goodwill but FYI, it is a bit of a racket. They claim to be a non profit and technically are but the people running it still make loads of cash and can justify paying people garbage cuz their a “charity”
New IRL bit idea: Take a co-ed group of people to Wal-Mart and pantomime being a hunter-gatherer tribe
Warning: Do not actually do this, you will probably be arrested
Just get some white youtubers to do it, they def won't get arrested and it'll make a pretty entertaining vid
I’m a known proponent of my friends shop lifting on chapo dot chat. And They snagged a couple of things from target the other day, but they usually give themselves a buy one get one free deal and in the process of doing this they accidentally scanned the get one free and lost $30 :( pour one out for them being a bad shoplifter.
Thanks for your concern. Really appreciate it comrade.
I’ll change my post for ya.
I can see how that’s a net positive for our community. Thanks for looking out.
Lol it's definetly not true I just think shoplifting is neat
I always fear saying this out loud as a gypsy because people will take it as confirmation that every stereotype is true, but shoplifting is good and fun and you should do it whenever you can.
I worked as a research assistant in adolescent medicine in college. My gut told me the first statement wasn't even true.
Here's a large study of adolescent stealing behaviors.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671850/#!po=1.19048
Demographics of the sample are presented (Table 1). The overall prevalence of stealing was 15.2% (95%CI: 14.8–17.0). Twenty-nine students (0.72% of the entire sample, 4.6% of those who steal) endorsed stealing symptoms consistent with a DSM-IV diagnosis of kleptomania. Males were more likely to have reported stealing than were girls. African-Americans and Asian-Americans were more likely to have reported stealing. Those students in 9th grade were more likely to have stolen, and students living with two parents were less likely to have stolen (Table 1).
It's self reported, which can be a rub if boys are more willing to admit to behaviors they see as masculine/ adventurous, and girls less so if they've internalized that the same behavior is "trashy"/ unfeminine. But n=3999 and it apparently tracks with other studies with differing methodologies. Kids are pretty honest about behaviors on surveys, actually, as a general rule.
If anyone is wondering, girls made up a smaller percentage of those in the "kleptomania- qualifying" group too.
So maybe boys are more likely to go through a stealing thing because their ancestors had to provide for their mates during/ after pregnancies. Just spit balling here.
[Anyone else find it weird that they write males in the bolded sentence and then girls?]
They're not supposed to, but it happens all the time
When I worked retail, I got a few write-ups because I let people pull the Ol' Return Something They Didn't Actually Buy truck (because nobody fucking cares)
I was told that this was basically the worst kind of shoplifting and that my position as supervisor was at risk if it continued.
I just got a new job
This is usually a thing people let slide because it's not worth to call out everyone when maybe 5% are pulling a scam. Most big stores I know prefer the ease of customer service to preventing petty theft. A customer not shopping at your store is a way bigger loss than like £2 or whatever.
I paid for, but forgot to take, some croissants in a store once. Realised, went back, and was in the process of literally getting out my receipt and pointing to the package behind the tills and I said "oh I left my croissants here" and the ass behind the till said "no you didn't". She has a bit of a reputation for being shitty though. At least I got my croissants and a healthy dose of "I told you so" in the end.
