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What if you suddenly got poorer though? Say if you became homeless and it was somewhat visible you were poor? I bet you wouldn’t steal then, because you’d know you’d get caught - people hate the poor and homeless and associate them with morality and would assume you’d steal.

That you steal food is understandable but not a given. Some people go to food banks instead. Some grow food. Some beg with signs instead of steal. Some qualify for food stamps. Theft is usually a rich to middle class thing because they can weather the consequences better. Most poor people do not steal material goods like that from stores because they already know how to be poor and live on nothing without resorting to thievery (or else they are already incarcerated).

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No, I’m very poor. I’ve been homeless, I’ve used food banks and I literally used to run a vegetable farm, so it’s very funny you would suggest I grow food.

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So why resort to stealing now? Because you’re angry at the stores now for inflation, so you want to punish them? That’s different than being poor. Being poor doesn’t make a person automatically antisocial, immoral, or more likely to harm another and to say otherwise is propaganda or an excuse to be antisocial. If you want to harm corporations in revenge, say that and stop hiding behind tired classist propaganda.

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It’s literally because I’m poor.

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