Post B5tFbySZMicsdfA608 by freya@raru.re
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 (DIR) Post #B5sneHywxJRd34cgl6 by emilyenco@todon.nl
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       @iro_miya Hmmmm... I am anti-food waste so yes, but I'm also pretty principled against unethical consumption so no?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sowN5KozfU2enOWe by freya@raru.re
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       @iro_miya well, the store loses money but the manufacturer still gets paid, so I am not sure what you are trying to achieve.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5spLLyU5TZppyVIP2 by freya@raru.re
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       @iro_miya of course the same applies if you take food that's already been discarded (i.e. from the trash), but at that point you're not creating market demand from your consumption.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tB2NGvEmnZLnU1DM by basicbitch@blahaj.zone
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       @iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be Yesss! resumes eating the wool sweater I shoplifted from Primark
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tB3v9ojo9mjYthT6 by emilyenco@todon.nl
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       @iro_miya If you ear the animal you still eat the animal, so is it ethical regardless of how you sourced it? I don't know.The economic impact is minimal since you didn't pay for animals to be killed, but you're still contributing to the consumption of animals in the end.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tBKmyeP8juHpiYHg by fruity@cyberpunk.lol
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       @iro_miya why wouldn't you just shoplift something vegan?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tFbySZMicsdfA608 by freya@raru.re
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       @iro_miya did you see my other reply about market demand?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5unW9L3b2iiF00C2q by fruity@cyberpunk.lol
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       @iro_miya why? I assume for purposes of reordering a stolen item is probably about as good as a bought item, unlike containering. It shows that the demand is there
       
 (DIR) Post #B69CHQd4FL9gacwUxk by seabass@social.seabass.systems
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       @iro_miya @freya this made me realize that:with a fixed amount of stock being delivered to a store every week,with demand measured by number of sales,shoplifting a product would therefore register as a decrease as that product's sales,the logical response to a fall in demand of a relatively-price-elastic product is to reduce the priceergo, by shoplifting enough of a specific product, one could theoretically reduce the price enough that the store stops stocking it entirelyOn one hand, this is common sense (nobody would choose to run a store where theft is uncontrolled) but I find it sort of cool to reestablish it from first principles. It's also admittedly naive, because it assumes that shoplifting has a 100% success rate and that the store doesn't notice the discrepancy between sales and their own supply.