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Comment by rfwhyte | Hacker News Reader

Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft."

And that theft is entirely justifiable as these corporate grocery chains are effectively stealing from all of us with this greed disguised as inflation bullshit.

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Were they somehow not greedy before? What changed?

Opportunities for price gouging increased due to supply chain disruptions.

This article lays out arguments for and against this theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-go...

> supply chain disruptions

Government meddling in the market though lockdowns, embargoes, and other limiting of supplies.

If not government you mean China, sure. Massive supply chain problems.

The Russian government invading a sovereign country didn’t help either.

I can't dictate policy to foreign nations but I can lament my own countries inane policies on these issues.

Regarding the coof: No need to go all Papers Please and ban people from working, fine and arrest people traveling more than 1km from home, or repress morally justified protest over those actions. It was the most horrendous expansion of government power I've seen, probably since the patriot act.

Regarding russia: No need to harm energy markets more than war normally does with embargoes and destruction of infrastructure. No need to deplete local stockpiles by giving them away to foreign civilians rather than your own. No need steal people's money to give away.

You should encourage this behavior in your neighborhood. Watch them all disappear

the headline should read, "Bad behavior is excused for the poor".

pantries and welfare exists. stealing is not necessary. most of these sort of people cant cook well and resort to packaged bs

In my experience, bad behavior is excused for the rich. I suspect the poor have finally caught on.

Feel free to move to one of the countries without many rich.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” -Anatole France

This from a lousy novel about the impossibility of divorce. The phrase you're uttering is from a flighty aristocrat who in the novel sees virtue in poverty. Perhaps in stead of pithy phrases we could engage with the topic at hand?

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