Walmart pressing felony charges against employee who ate ‘multiple’ Oreo cookies

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138. If the bakery systematically destroyed your local economy...

...and then, as one of the only employers in town, paid you wages so low that *the company itself* encouraged you to apply for government benefits to survive, and let's not forget, denied you promotion opportunities *because you were a woman* (for which there is a mountain of evidence, that would have resulted in a massive lawsuit against Wal-Mart had the Supreme Court decided there were just too many--that's right, too many--plaintiffs for such a suit to go on)...then I think that from a moral standpoint you could eat all the jelly you wanted.

Theft of food is a classic weapon of the weak, in line with the theories of anthropologist and political scientist James C. Scott. Where theft of labor is legitimized and formalized in an economic system, as Wal-Mart's racket most certainly is, such individual acts of subversion are ethically legitimate.