@noodlecat59 said in Peating in poverty:
@LetTheRedeemed the amish and mennonites and farmers would probably feed someone who asked. try asking the store manager of the corporate grocery store to front you a sandwich until you get paid the next day and let me know how it goes.
I actually suggested in my first comment that he reach out to small businesses/farms for help/food. I don’t disagree that a corporate store probably won’t help (even at that, the dominos I used to work for wasn’t beyond giving extra pizza when we had it, if the hard luck story was convincing).
im an ardent hyper-capitalist
Ah maybe there’s your error
and even i know know stealing food is morally ok in corporate society. i presume we are talking about getting food from aldi's here and not the local amish. if the local council bans backyard chickens or would prosecute you for having a milking cow, then stealing from the grocery store is even more acceptable.
I didn’t address it when ThinPicking corrected me on the capitalism/corporatism distinction, but I will here.
After years of my defending the Austrian economic arguments for capitalism, and likewise distinguishing corporatism from a capitalist society with rules for fair play in business, I found a few errors.
The etymological definition of capitalism, is merely the supremacy of capital accumulation; it is not "may the most efficient and wisest outcome of resource allocation win". In fact, it was used as an insult by reactionary conservatives in the 1800s for that very reason.
“Corporatism” is intended to demarcate “fair” capitalism from “rule breaking” capitalism.
Fundamentally, they both undermine social orders for the virtues of arbitrage, so both end up ordaining wealth accumulation above other values - corporatism is just the capitalist formalizing the power he stole from traditional or indigenous hierarchical structures.
Theft is more efficient than honesty. One hundred years of Capitalism convincing us that our selfish ambition is a more valuable social structure than other virtues (sanctity, family, duty, etc) tells Nietzsche's “last man” that he should probably steal that cheap item because the punishment is low and the purported victim indifferent and unaffected.
Again, the actual victims of petty theft is as much the social fabric of society, as the business owner with insurance and who perpetually increases prices (ultimately making a third victim - the noble poor).
Sorry OP for participating in turning your post into a twatter fever dream lol