Reply #113: What loot? [View All]

[porphyrian]

This makes me think of McDonalds. Every 20 minutes or so, McDonalds takes whatever food that's been sitting under heat lamps unsold and throws it out. It is bagged and put in the dumpster. However, if, say, an employee is caught salvaging any of that food (as much as it is), they are fired. Why? Because the company doesn't look at the incident as someone putting the restaraunt's garbage to good use, they see it as the cost of that item denied them should the employee have bought it fresh. They consider it theft of a potential profit, even though the person involved may have never bought the item if it hadn't been available for free. In the disaster areas these "looters" are at, all of this product is going to be declared to insurance companies as loss and it will be replaced or compensated for. In my book, that makes it garbage, not loot.

Profit before people is sociopathic and irresponsible, and it will continue to be a problem until either corporate "personhood" is eliminated or corporations are forced to have the same responsibility and accountability as individual citizens as well as our rights.