Four or five days ago I listened to a NY Times Opinion Podcast titled “The Rich Don’t Play By The Rules, So Why Should I?” It was basically a measure of how much hostility toward corporations is simmering out there.
Hosted by NYT Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman, the guests were New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino (i.e., the bearded dude) and political commentator Hasan Piker.
Go to 3:24 for the Whole Foods portion of the discussion — “Would you steal from Whole Foods?“)
I, HE personified, have never stolen a single item from a Whole Foods store. Nor from Wilton’s Village Market or a Stop & Shop or any similar-sized corporate store. Or from a library or a gas station convenience store. I’m not a thief.