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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

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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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