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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing compares to the feeling of elation, of burdens being lifted, and constraints escaped...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that I feel when I walk out of a store with their products in my pockets.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a world where everything already belongs to someone else...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...where I'm expected to sell away my life at work in order to get the money to pay for the minimum I need to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where I am surrounded by forces beyond my control or comprehension...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...that obviously are not concerned about my needs or welfare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a way to carve our a little piece of the world for myself...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to act back upon a world that acts so much upon me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is an entirely different sensation than the one I feel when I buy something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I pay for something I am making a trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am offering the money that I bought with my labor, my time, and my creativity...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...for a product or service that the corporation wouldn't share with me under any other circumstances.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a sense, we have a relationship based on violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We negotiate an exchange, not according to our respect or concern for each other...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...but according to the forces that we can bring to bear on each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything changes when I shoplift.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am no longer negotiating with faceless, inhuman entities that have no concern for my welfare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, I am taking what I need without giving anything up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer feel like I am being forced into an exchange...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and I no longer feel as if I have no control over how the world around me dictates my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer have to worry about whether the pleasure I received from the book I purchased...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...was equal to the two hours of labor it cost me to be able to afford it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These and a thousand other ways shoplifting makes me feel liberated and empowered.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You dropped something."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thanks."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thank you."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shoplifter wins her prize by taking risks.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not by exchanging a piece of her life for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life for her is not something that must be sold away for seven or eight dollars an hour...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...in return for survival.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is something that is hers because she takes it for herself...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...because she lays claim to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a denial that a monetary value can be ascribed to everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:03:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hi."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Was she good?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Very good."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hi, sweetheart."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And we had a lot of fun. Didn't we?"