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A French teenager has been jailed after buying a PlayStation 4 for under £8 by weighing it as if the games console was a huge bag of fruit.
The 19-year-old man, named in the French media as Adel, picked the device off the shelf and took it to the fruit section and weighed it.
He then put a sticker with the heavily reduced price tag on the expensive console and went to the checkout.
Adel paid £7.86 (€9) for the 6lb bag of 'fruit' at a self-checkout at a supermarket in Montbeliard, eastern France, last September.
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Teenager Jailed After Buying PS4 for £8 by Weighing it and Paying for it as Food
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:50PM (3 children)
I work at a grocery store and thanks to the union we at least get a decent benefit's package even if it's typically little better than minimum wage and hardly any position alone is full time. We haven't stopped hiring through the entirety of the pandemic. I can't particularly blame people for not wanting to give up the benefits, but really the responsibility here is the government to help the workers out and to stop encouraging the wealthy to hoard their wealth. It shouldn't be possible to work a full time job and not have anything left over to save for the future without personally spending irresponsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @02:43PM
This shows a misunderstanding of what wealth is.
Wealth is the production of goods and services. When all the businesses go out of business there is no one 'hoarding' wealth, there is less wealth overall.
"It shouldn't be possible to work a full time job and not have anything left over to save for the future without personally spending irresponsibly. "
In most cases it's not. Unless you have way too many children that you can't afford to support (an irresponsible act) or you spend money irresponsibly, for the most part, if you have a full time job and don't spend money irresponsibly, you can save for the future.
Government wants to tax the people that save and invest and are frugal and responsible and give that money to those that are irresponsible. That's not encouraging people to be responsible and save for the future, it's encouraging the exact opposite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @03:25PM
Here is the thing. When you are working your full time job and the government is taxing you to give that money to someone else and they are taxing the business you work for (which passes on those costs back to you) this makes it harder for you to make a living. It gives you less take home money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:21PM
(inflation is also a tax. What you're complaining about is what happens in socialist countries. People work so many hours and the government taxes it all either directly or through inflation and so the people that work so many hours can't make a decent living. If you want your full time job to take you further you should be advocating for less inflation and less taxation and less government spending, not more).