Opinion | Would You Steal From Whole Foods?

I want to start with a little exercise just about our own morals. Would you share your Netflix password? I do. I also do. Well —— With anyone. For the longest time I actually had someone else’s Netflix password, and that was my primary access to Netflix. And now you share your own? Yeah. Would you get around a paywall on an article you’re trying to read? Do it every day on my stream. Every day. I support it when people do it for my own work. I say go off. Use the Wayback Machine. Would you pirate music from an indie band? Is it 2005 and I’m using LimeWire? Because, yes. I feel like every millennial has at some point done this. I mean, I feel fundamentally Spotify is kind of like deleterious to the musician livelihood, and I use that. But then I go to the shows. Oh, yeah. No, I’m pro piracy all the way, like across the board. Would you pirate a car? Yes, if I could get away with it. If it was as easy as pirating I.P., I would do it, yeah. Would you dine and dash from your local diner? Never, never. Tip 35 percent. Mike’s! Come on. No, I wouldn’t do that. And if I saw somebody doing that, I’d probably pay for their meal. Yeah. Would you steal from Whole Foods? You want to go first? Yes, and I have under very specific circumstances. I think that stealing from a big box store — I’ll just state my platform: It’s neither very significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest or direct action. But I did steal from Whole Foods on several occasions.