• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I agree with the girl. If you’re willing to steal from a McDonalds, what else are you scheming and how long until those scheme involve me? Theft is theft and I’d want nothing to do with it.

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      15 hours ago

      Lemmy teenagers coming for you on this one. How about zero exploits on a first date?

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      LOL at the downvotes. Like showing your date a scam on a first date is perfectly reasonable behavior. Sometimes lemmy just screams, “I can’t get laid to save my life! Why not?!”

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        15 hours ago

        My first date with my (now) wife featured us watching a movie after I showed her how to torrent it. It’s an easy way to parse through date prospects who are too hung up on corporate-defined ethics. I knew she was a catch when she was interested in the prospect of bypassing overpriced movie fees, rather than worrying about how some billion-dollar company was going to get my $10, like some other dates I’d had.

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      16 hours ago

      Agree and disagree. His “schemes” are going to be more like: “drive me around on Halloween while I run up to the storefront and take all the candy left out for kids!”

      • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 hours ago

        Agree. An offer was made by McDonald’s (free 10 nuggets for signup on app). This was accepted and done three times. It is McDonald’s fault for not securing their offer to prevent what happened. They need clearly display and enforce the limits of the offer. If you’re able to meet the requirements of the offer 3 times and they don’t stop you then that’s on them.

        Also yeah, fuck billion dollar corporations. Even if it was theft, they have a budget for this kind of crap.

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          13 hours ago

          The workers are stuck there until their shift is over either way. They also don’t get paid more or less if you pay full price or not.

          Perhaps the most merciful thing to do is to not eat at McDonald’s at all?

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      17 hours ago

      Do you think if I googled “McDonald’s wage theft” it would come up with some stories?

      …now you might say “two wrongs don’t make a right to thins”… But what if I could then find similar scams and problems centered around exploitation in all billion dollar companies or billionaire rises to power.

      Now what if I could then trace these stories back through time and find many billionaires come from wealthy families, and many wealthy families have ties to even more dubious and exploitative practices throughout history.

      …from things like America’s wars for banana republics or fascists in Latin America, to things like The Triangle Shirtwaist fire maybe even some going back through WW1 & 2, or slavery and colonization.

      So it’s also a question of what is wrong in the world at large and how to resolve or replace it.

      P.S Obviously this assumes those chickens wanted to be nuggets. Turns out moral philosophy is just more difficult than “what’s wrong is wrong”.

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      17 hours ago

      Oh no! Someone stole from a multi-billion dollar global company! That very same company who wouldn’t hesitate a second if it could make money murdering you without consequence! How dare they!

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        15 hours ago

        Bet you get a lot of second dates. JFC you people, showing off a scam on a first date and y’all defending the guy?

        Applause for the woman being up-front and honest!

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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          9 hours ago

          Lmmfao, sure thing bud, whatever makes you feel better 😂

          You just keep deepthroating that corporate boot, see how that works out for you, clown (spoiler: not well lol)

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      18 hours ago

      If you think that someone “stealing” 30 chicken nuggets from a company worth over 200 billion dollars is somehow an indication that they must also treat their loved ones poorly, you’re thinking far too simply about the complexity of human motivation. Amazingly, exploiting soulless corporations and hurting people are completely unrelated behaviors.

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        17 hours ago

        It’s probably a franchisee who isn’t a billionaire. More than likely you’re stealing from someone who only has tens of millions.

        (I think it’s 2-3 million to start a fast food joint.)

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          16 hours ago

          I do believe McDonald’s pays back their franchisee for promos like this, they’re essentially “Manufacturers coupons” (When you use a manufacturer coupon, the retailer can reclaim their cost of the merchandise with them)