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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 216 points 10 months ago

Since then, Yvette’s pulled the same “trick” four times, although she insists she doesn’t see herself as a shoplifter and is “a goody goody” by nature: “I earn a reasonable amount in my senior position, drive an SUV, and live in a desirable postcode. Before my divorce, our girls attended private school.”

This kind of ÜberKarens are the reason we can't get nice stuff. Actions of people like her will be used to crack down on people that literally can't afford basic needs and to reduce the privacy of everyone else, while making the service shittier at the same time.

And she has the gall of calling her self a "goody goody". Bullshit, no one so self entitled is a nice person.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 159 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Honestly I don't even really care that much that she's shoplifting, I find it hard to sympathize with a multi-billion-dollar company losing a small fraction of their profits.

But then she insists that she's not actually a shoplifter, and brags about her income and how she's a great person as if she's trying to separate herself from "the bad shoplifters", which gives me the same vibes as the article "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion".

[-] 520@kbin.social 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I know right? If anything she's worse; she's the one not doing it out of necessity. She actually has a realistic choice.

Not that I have much sympathy for the supermarkets but fuck me, don't pretend you're better than the next person doing it, especially when they might only be doing it out of necessity.

[-] FMT99@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

The multi billion dollar company loses nothing. If shoplifting increases they'll just raise the prices for the rest of us.

[-] Flambo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

prices will be raised regardless. record profits? raise prices. record growth? raise prices. cost of production goes down? raise prices.

[-] bratosch@lemm.ee 42 points 10 months ago

I don't get her reasoning either. "I consider myself a goody goody because I'm an upper class asshole"

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

"I'm rich therefore right" is a very seductive viewpoint

[-] aDuckk@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"It's not a crime when we do it." Meanwhile I guarantee you this person has turned their nose up at lower class people shopping in the same stores like they could only be there to steal shit.

[-] Thoth19@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

No way she's upper class. Upper middle at best and that's pushing it.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 29 points 10 months ago

Yeah, bitch decided to commit crime 5 times, boast about her career and wealth while pretend that is the feature of good people, then "teach" others how to commit the same crime. Bitch have no shame nor dignity. Makes me wonder what sort of white collar crime she also committed.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 24 points 10 months ago

"I'm actually a really good person, I just commit crimes for fun, so it's okay."

[-] deur@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

People who don't accept the consequences of their actions are the worst.

However, what if Yvette is not a real person and this is meant to stir up drama targeted at the middle class?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I doubt a real person.

[-] brambledog@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Articles this inflammatory in nature generally are highly fabricated. A notable example is the Ken Waks "I quit Google in two separate occasions because I'm that brilliant."

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Agreed. If she's not paying, everyone else is

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