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Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I always have been nervous going into the bank to get my own money. Its funny to me we have a trillionaire that probably has never once had this feeling.

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[–] 70 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Give a man gun and he'll rob a bank
Give a man a bank and he'll rob the world

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    When you borrow $1M from the bank, it’s your problem. When you borrow $100M, it’s the bank’s problem.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Capitalize profits
    Socialize expenses

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Same attitude as a cancer.

    Capitalize on all the resources available from the blood vessels. Socialise the responsibility of recycling waste products from cancerous cells whose existence is to be a net detriment on the whole organism.

    Billionaires = oligarchs = cancer. Quick maffs.

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    • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Who do you think you're stealing it from? The bank?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Few years ago, people literally had to rob the bank for their own money here. Thing was, when you went to the bank and you asked for your money and they didn’t give it to you, they were technically breaking the law, and you brandishing a weapon to while asking for something that is legally yours is not a particular crime. The thought of threatening a bank employee whose job was to be a verbal punching bag for an evil financial system wasn’t appealing to many people, and most people didn’t have enough in there for it to be worth it, so it wasn’t as common as the media made it out to be.

    A lot of “robbers” used obviously fake “weapons” and that did work - while also giving plausible deniability towards the law (“I didn’t really make a threat”) and for the employee (“I was being threatened and complied” without actually being in danger).

    You’d think our sordid history with capitalism would instill a lesson or two in our society but vapid “entrepreneur” culture and socio-economic pick-me-ism are at an all time high here and every day I am drawn more to the mountain hermit life and this is not a joke.

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    • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    Funny thing is, those mega-rich fucks would absolutely walk into bank and withdraw YOUR money without a second thought.

    They are stealing from us all the time.

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    [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    I feel nervous leaving a store with a backpack without buying anything.

    I legit didn't even touch anything lol

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    [–] 12 points 11 months ago*

    Take your money out the bank...

    Take your money out the bank...

    Take your money out the bank...

    Take your money out the..... BAAAAAAAAAANK!

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago (17 children)

    I agree with the trillionaire and billionaire comments, but I don't understand why taking your money makes you feel like you're stealing?

    It's like making a batch of cookies, putting them in a tin, later going back and taking some cookies out of the tin to eat.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    Not sure. Probably because its so easy to walk in and just take money out i feel like im gonna get caught for something bad that I didnt actually do. It feels like it would be ridiculously easy to steal since you juat say your name and theye give you money

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I'd they are letting you take money out of your account by only giving your name, you need to get a new bank. They need to be verifying your identity somehow.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Sometime they ask for a driver license. But those are notoriously easy to fake

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    Sometimes? I wouldn't worry about your unease in walking out of your bank with your money, I'd worry about having your money in that bank where they apparently give money out to anyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Do you not have to insert/tap your card and enter a pin or something?

    How would they even know what account to take it out of otherwise?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Just name

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Except you also have to have your card/phone and know your pin. It's actually one of the hardest places to steal from.

    I have an uncle who used to do security for a major department store. This was over 40 years ago. They had an issue where entire racks of clothes were going missing. One time it was even two complete pallets, not even unpacked yet, they were received and then just missing. After the investigation they discovered a guy had clothes that looked similar to their uniform walked in confidently, released the locks on the wheels of the rack, rolled it into the back, another guy pulled up in a van, they put the whole rack in the back and drive off. He kinda looked like he belonged so no one questioned him.

    The pallets, again same guy just walked into back room found a forklift, picked them up, loaded them into a rental truck and drove off.

    Stealing is easy, it's not getting greedy and being able to not get caught is the issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Probably because its so easy to walk in and just take money out i feel like im gonna get caught for something bad that I didnt actually do.

    this part made me realize the reason I have the feeling is money laundering laws, background checks and legal takeout limits

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    • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Because of social anxiety, I am more nervous about dealing with another human being at checkout actually paying for my stuff than when I go in specifically to steal from the megacorp.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Do we have a trillionaire?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Only if you count companies as people. For now at least

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