Comment by ryandrake
1 day ago
I don't understand why we'd defend a megacorporation. Both the corporation and the shoplifter can be wrong.
1 day ago
I don't understand why we'd defend a megacorporation. Both the corporation and the shoplifter can be wrong.
The business is not wrong for choosing to use automation. Everyone does it every day, and it is not considered "wrong".
"Everyone does it every day"
That makes it okay?
"It is not considered wrong"
By WHOM? I go out of my way to avoid self-checkout when I can, because I consider it 'wrong.'
By everyone who uses any tool invented in human history. You are drawing an arbitrary line at self checkouts for some reason, but I am sure you have no problem with the millions of other ways automation has benefited you, obviously including using a computer to express your ideas on a forum hosted by a business that invests in other businesses that use automation as their springboard to success.
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Self-checkouts aren’t automation. They just change who does the work (to someone not being paid for it).
I've heard this argument, and I just don't get it. I've never heard anyone complain about having to push their own shopping carts. No one pays you to push the cart. Should they? If you want the cart pushed, you push the cart. If you want to check out, you check out. If either one of those is a hardship for you, go elsewhere.
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