" In a world turned up-side down, you have to be a thief to be an honest man" Author of 'One Man's Quest for Vengence'
You grow up in a world where everything already belongs to someone else. You are expected to sell your life, your free time, in order to pay for the minimum you need to survive. You are surrounded by forces that are out of your control, and that don't care about your needs or welfare. Stealing from a corperation is a way to carve out a little bit of the world, back for yourself - to for once act on 'Them', who act so much upon you.
When you pay for something, you are trading your time and effort, for something. This isn't a negotiation though. This is not a loving relationship between you and other human beings. This is a corperation making money, off you.
The shoplifter gains his or her prize, not by exchanging their freedom, but by taking risks. Is life something that can be sold away for $9 / hour or is it something you take, or lay claim to?
Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.
It's saying "no" to everything you and I hate about corperations. You don't hate corperations? I guess maybe they aren't that bad. At least they: pay extremly low wages, have little to no benifits, and only make profit for a few people high up on the chain. They are awesome for the environment too. They're awesome for small private businesses too, who consist of real people, not a symbol.
Corperations are the kings of exploiting cheap labour, and not just here. They buy their goods at the lowest cost, no matter what.
Stealing from a corperation hurts a corperation and is the only means of protesting against them that will have the slightest effect. You aren't showing them 'dissatisfaction', you're saying 'fuck this'. It's costs them, instead of just denying them a few people's profit.
But what about the people in the corperations!? Friends. You are stealing from an non-human entity when you steal from Wal-Mart. The corperation doesn't pay the workers by how much they make that week or quarter or year. They fucking pay them as little as they can get away with.
But doesn't this drive up the prices for everyone if people steal? False. They charge as much as they can get away with. It's what they think you can pay, not how much it costs them.
So go ahead and argue about how corperations aren't just holding commodities for randsom, at our expense. Justify it for them, and play along. They like that.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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