Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
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Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
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Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#2Stealing from a self checkout is a cheap and easy thrill if you’re rich enough to pay for legal representation. For a poor person it represents a much larger threat and most lower paying jobs are much less tolerant of needing to take time off for things like a court date.
Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#3When the self checkout machine refuses to scan my item. I am very likely to just steal it. Consider it a payment for my wasted time and doing the work that used to be handled by the cashier.
Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#4This seems accurate to me:
"There might be even a subconscious kind of thought of: Hey, if I got caught, if I ever did get in trouble, I have the resources — I could hire an attorney, or I could call somebody. I know how to make something happen."
For a wealthy person, this sort of theft is a "misunderstanding", for anyone else, it's a bigger risk.
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#5Perhaps for as many different reasons as there are people
Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#6Less consequences if they get caught.
Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#7This reminds me of this Montgomery Burns quote:
> If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift, or the Jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well I say, "Cheating is the gift man gives himself."
Re: Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
#8Or perhaps rich people are more likely to tell the truth in this survey and there's no stealing/income correlation.
I doubt it, but the point is the article is not about who steals more. It's about who admits to stealing.
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#9To clarify a bit: In an unscientific survey, those who self-described their household income as > $100,000 were 4% more likely than those with self-described household income Rather than speculate on this “result”, I’d consider it statistical noise.