re: How to cure shoplifting

That woman yelling “it’s not worth it” -who does she think is going to pay for that stolen inventory? Someone should tell her.

I know a lot of people think shoplifting is not worth physical violence and maybe in isolation that makes sense.

The problem is once a society ignores a problem (ignores the minority that are causing the problem/cheating the system) things will reach a tipping point where others will say “frick it” I’m not going to be the sucker following the rules and paying for these losers lifestyle and over time the entire system breaks down. Once you have more takers than producers your civilization is done until there is a major reckoning that sets things back in order.

Allowing stealing and not enforcing property rights is going to cause a huge problem.