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Why should they do that??  They have more money than you so you deserve some of it?  Are you a communist?  They offer products, and set a price for them.  Buy it or don't buy it.

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it's not that they have more money than me, but the fact that they have SO MUCH MORE than me, this is the reason why people work 9-5 5 days a week for 40 years.

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And here we arrive at the real reason for this kind of theft: bitterness and jealousy.  If you live in the US, you live in the nation in which it is the easiest by far to become rich.  You're surrounded by 300 million people with relatively *huge* levels of disposable income, dying to part with it for absolutely any POS product that might give them a little bit of pleasure.  The fucking Pet Rock made someone a millionaire.

The reason people work a miserable 9-5 their whole lives is because they are complacent.  People with no initiative and a shitty attitude guarantee themselves a meager income by believing that someone else is making them poor.  The only difference between rich people and poor people in a capitalist country is that rich people never believed that someone else gets to decide how well they do financially.

If you don't have as much money as you think you deserve, it's probably your fault.

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WhiskeyClone said:

There seems to be this bizarre general contempt for 'the big corporations,' as if large businesses are nothing but malignant centers of evil, out to kill and rob.  They are just successful businesses; they haven't done anything that justifies your thievery.  Somebody hears something about Wal-Mart using exploitative foreign labor, and suddenly any crime against any large corporation is completely justified, a righteous strike for the 'good guys.'

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PyroBurns said:

A lot of your posts are case related. There are plenty of companies doing good things. And yes, plenty of companies doing bad things like this thread has pointed out. But corporations are nowhere near inherently evil.

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It's even more revealing to compare the actual rates of increase of the salaries of CEOs and ordinary workers; from 1990 to 2005, CEOs' pay increased almost 300% (adjusted for inflation), while production workers gained a scant 4.3%. The purchasing power of the federal minimum wage actually declined by 9.3%, when inflation is taken into account. These startling results are illustrated in Figure 7.

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As for your thirst quencher question, yes you were stealing. That was that guy's water and he didn't ask for any smelly ass bums sticking their tongue in his shit. He would most likely understand if he caught you, that doesn't mean you weren't stealing.

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The killer in me is the killer in you

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CokedUpHobit64 said:

The thing is our society perpetuates stealing.  A monetary system perpetuates it, and the fact is that if their wasn't a monetary system then their would be no concept of stealing.  Their is no need for companies these days, let alone a currency system.

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There was no stealing before there was money?  Really bizarre reasoning you have here.

No need for companies?  Did you make your computer yourself?