• the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?

    But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn’t be against the law, but we also would call it something else… Like taxation.

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        1 year ago

        Oh interesting!

        I immediately read that as:
        Big companies - “hell yeah we will steal from people”
        Normal people/sm business owners - “no thank you, we don’t want to steal, or be stolen from”

        That matches current statistics already since something like 75% of theft is wage theft in America.

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        1 year ago

        Like Adobe / Microsoft / Google / Meta / … maybe most large enterprises ? No question about it.

        • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          downloading software isnt theft, soooo unless you are breaking into their offices its not really stealin from them.

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            1 year ago

            Warez piracy is anyway not “stealing” since you’re not taking the digital item away, tis something which can be infinitely copied.