Lil Woody - 3

The speaker and Larry P discuss the choices people make when they feel they have no other options. They mention a story about someone choosing between a legit job and committing crimes for faster money. They argue that it's not necessarily about being bad people, but about weighing the pros and cons. They also discuss cheating in relationships and how getting away with it can lead to repeating the behavior. They talk about the importance of not deceiving others and the consequences of wasting resources. The speaker argues that if people could afford things, they wouldn't feel the need to commit crimes. They mention the issue of low wages and the struggle to make ends meet. They discuss different political approaches to child support and the responsibility of parents. The speaker suggests bending the law to find solutions and mentions pyramid schemes as an example. And we're back right on the Unplugged Malign Doc and Larry P talking about staying out of court. We got into a whole long discussion just now about all of America and what they're doing to us. But what I want to talk about, though, is the situations that come up that people feel like making these choices are their only option and what people can do to avoid that. Because we're not talking about them, we're talking about y'all. In the break we were talking about how, you know, a lot of people are sitting in situations where they either want or need more money. And Larry was just telling me a story about a gentleman who, like, he had the option where he could either, you know, work a legit job or he could commit crimes. And basically the long and short of it was the money comes in faster by doing the illegitimate stuff. And that's why they keep doing it. So it's not necessarily that these people are bad people, it's like they've thought out the pros and cons of the situation. I can go to work all week and get this money, or I can work for like a day or two, get the money in hand pre-tax, and then possibly make some more money over the course of the rest of the week. It makes complete sense to me. And I think the issue with it is, like with the set-it-off example, when you do have enough money you're good until you don't. Life keep lifin'. Life keep lifin'. And you can either say, like, all right, well, cool, I'm gonna go to work and I'm gonna get this money back, or I can just do this illegitimate stuff for maybe a couple of more months, get enough money, then stop. And I think that's what happens in a lot of situations. Some people, like in the set-it-off situation, they had money and then life was lifin' and they was like, oh, shoot, we need more money. We can either A, bust our ass, cleanin' these floors until we get enough money, or we could do something that we have already tried before and been successful at it, and we could just get... Like, when you're successful at breakin' the crime, or committin' the crime, or doin' whatever legal activity you're doin', when you're successful at it, you always feel like you could come back and do it. If I do it and I get caught, like, the first or second time and go to jail, I'm gonna be like, all right, I tried to do it, let me do it the right way. But when you do it and you don't get caught, yeah, that's not like cheatin'. Why wouldn't I do it again? It's like if somebody's cheatin', right? You're in a relationship and it's like, you know what? This ain't really the right thing to do, but I'm gonna go over there and do it, and you don't get caught. The likelihood is like, oh, I didn't get caught. If stuff get rough over there again, we get in an argument or somethin', I know what I can do. I'm gonna go over there and I'm gonna do it again. And you do it until you get caught. And when you're doin' it, you basically, you try to get smarter at doin' it. You know what I mean? I'ma change the number of her phone. I'ma change her name in my phone to somethin' else. I'ma change this. I'ma meet her at certain locations. I'ma start plannin' it around certain moments or days where I'm supposed to be at work, but I took half a day of PTO. You know what I'm sayin'? I'ma start doin' it at times like this. And that's why I said, women don't be mad at the cheatin' themselves. They be mad at the deceit, the scheme, the plot. Same thing with the government. Same thing with crime. They really don't be mad at the crime. They be mad that you basically got over on them. You try to sell drugs. You try to sell drugs as a first-time offender. No criminal record. You get caught a month in. You know what I'm sayin'? You may get a slap on the wrist. You say, bad boy. Go serve some time in jail. Just a little bit. You're a first-time offender. And you've been sellin' drugs under the government's nose for 10 years and runnin' this empire. They're about to throw the book at you. It's like, remember that girl who they were claiming was kidnappin'? Who was claiming she was kidnappin'? And they had the whole search unit out lookin' for her? And then she just popped back up at her house? When the judge was out here givin' her her charges, I think she ended up with like 10 years of probation or somethin' like that. And had to do community service. The judge was like, yeah, I hear your apology or whatever. However, you gotta understand how many resources you wasted, how you made the community look. The argument people were makin' when everybody was searchin' for her was, black women go disappearin' all the time and nobody ever cares. And we have to take a stand at this time, at this moment. We need to make sure that she's brought home and is safe. And whoever is responsible, they are convicted and they are held accountable. Because we cannot allow this to continue. Only to find out she was full of it. So now they was just like, see? See, y'all tryin' to make us feel bad. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. We gon' make an example out of her. She gon' do this time. It's the deceit. Nobody likes to be fooled. Nobody likes to be played with in they face. You cannot play in people's face, man. But, I mean, that's the thing about it, though, man. Like, like I said, I mean, like I said in the last segment, I think all of this can be controlled from the top to the bottom. People won't have to feel the need to commit crimes if they feel like they can afford things. I remember once upon a time, back in probably a decade ago, $50,000 a year would have been good enough to live a comfortable life. $50,000 a year today? You basically might as well be making like $20,000. So I remember during the height of the pandemic, that is when I remember stuff breaking that they were like, this is why we gotta raise the minimum wage, we gotta raise the minimum wage. And then people were arguing, they were like, on the business side, well, you don't have to raise the minimum wage. People gon' get paid what they command in the open market. And what happened was the pandemic shifted the market. So if you was working in a grocery store, they knew like, I mean, you ain't, you don't really have a whole bunch of options. We're only gonna pay you like $8 an hour. But then when everybody was just like, you know what? I can work from home. I can work remote for like $12 an hour. I'm not coming in that grocery store. So then the grocery stores had to adjust and start saying, all right, we will start y'all at $15 an hour. And the market like has been struggling to fix itself. Well, the problem is minimum wage, federal minimum wage is still $7.25. And there's still people getting paid that. Yeah, I was about to say, the funny thing about it. Which is wild. I was like, the crazy thing about it is, yeah, companies have changed how much they're paying at their entry levels. But federally, they're still like, nah, $7.25. And the problem is, too, while it's all one big pyramid scheme, companies have like increased their wages. Federal minimum wage hasn't increased at all. So some companies are still paying people $7.25 an hour. And stuff has gotten more expensive. And nobody is taking into consideration the people who are still getting paid at the bottom end of this pyramid. Like it's still people out here working hard for under like $10 an hour. They got kids to feed. They got bills to pay. The logic is just go get a better job. Yeah, well, you always could go do construction. I can do construction, huh? I'm a 48-year-old mother of three. My baby daddy don't pay child support. And y'all won't send him to jail. You won't adjust his credit score. You won't supplement the fact that he don't pay my child support. Because that's an option, too. If you really want to line up the credit scores, right, if the objective is to help the kids, the check should come to the mama's house every month, no matter what. And the responsibility then should shift to the daddy to pay the government back. Uninvolve the kids out of the process. They should still get their check, no matter what. The government should take care of that. Hold that man accountable. But the kids should still get their check. That's the, what's the approach on that? What's the who? That is the democratic approach. Oh, my bad. I didn't know that was a political statement. Yeah, I mean, because you got to think about it. So the Republican approach would be the Republican approach would be like you should have been married. The Republican approach pretty much is like, let's not let's not involve the government at all. The Democratic approach is how can the government help us get better? So the Democratic approach is always going to be like involved in the government as much as possible. And the Republican approach is, hey, look, we got our money. Y'all got to figure it out on your end. As long as the government ain't bothering me, I don't need them. I don't need them to garnish my wages. I don't need them to be pulling the check out of my just so I could take it. Y'all could take care of the kid. Y'all need y'all need to go to counseling and figure that out amongst yourself. What you need to do is call your cousin. Have your cousin pull up over at his house and get your money. That's the way we would approach it. That's why certain amendments are in place. If you understand what I'm saying, I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just saying that's how I would handle it. But do you? I think everybody needs to find a way that they could bend the law a little bit. OK, I don't think I'd endorse anything this man is saying. I don't think breaking the law, breaking the law should never be. What's the difference between breaking and bending the law? Well, exactly what it says. When I break the law, like, you know, I clearly committed a crime. When I bend it, you know. I need an example. There's a little bit of wiggle room. Give me an example. An example that won't get us indicted. I mean, pyramid schemes. OK. Pyramid schemes. It's not illegal. It's not illegal. But at the same time, you know, it's like I bend the law a little bit. You know, I lied a little bit to you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, maybe I got a couple of extra dollars from you. You know, bending the law. Let's just bend it a little bit. Let's not break it, you know. I'm going to overcharge you a little bit more on something, but I'm going to bend it a little bit. This is the issue with, like, self-checkout. So, you know, bending the law, even though this is clearly stealing. If somebody goes in, they're just like, you know what, I'm about to buy these groceries. I'm going to go through self-checkout. I got 10 items. I'm going to scan eight. It's not that I didn't pay. I didn't pay for all of it. Don't let me bag my own groceries. Maybe if y'all paid cashiers a lovable wage, you would have enough people to be cashiers to adequately supervise me going through self-checkout. Maybe I wouldn't eat a handful of grapes when I walk in here. I don't know. I wanted a snack. What if I told you that the main people stealing from self-checkout, they got the money, were the employees? Oh, I believe that. I remember when I used to work for Coca-Cola and we would go to different stores, putting the Coca-Cola on the shelves. It was one Walmart I went to. And Walmart's biggest issue in there was theft. And the theft was from the employees. It wasn't even the customers. The customers in there doing what they need to do. But all the employees in there are stealing from the store. They know where the camera's at. And they couldn't figure it out. They still probably can't figure it out. The employees know where all the cameras are. The employees know everything because they worked it. And they're like, yeah, we know how to get this out of here. When I used to work at Walgreens. After you learn the system, this is the problem with employees. This is why so many companies want to hire dumb people. When you hire smart people, smart people understand the system. Smart people, you put them in a position, especially when you start putting them in positions of management, positions of leadership. You start showing them the inner workings of the business. It don't take a rocket science to figure out how to start messing up numbers. Well, not just that, too. But I also like this. This is my issue when I worked at Walmart. I learned how to ride the clock. So, you know, my shift would be like seven to four. Right. Now I give you like three solid hours of work, but I'm gonna get paid for eight. Statute of limitations. They can't get me now. But that's what I would do. I come in. You know, I clock in. I'll go out to the floor. Make sure that I'm supposed to be doing. You know, do like 45 minutes to hour work. Somebody else will be clocking in at eight. Coming to do the eight o'clock shift. Not telling something like, hey, man, I need me to go do something in the back. I'll be back. For like two hours. You know, I just go play on my phone somewhere. Talk to friends. Have a few conversations. Pop back out at like ten o'clock when it's time for them to take a break. Give them their little break. Do a little something else. By that time, it's almost time for me to take lunch. You know, and you know me. My lunch break don't start until I got my food heated up. When you work for a company like Walmart or like a place where, you know, there's a lot of, like, hard labor or stuff like that. You know, a lot of stuff that can be done. This is what I always tell people. Know where the broom at. Know where the broom at. Because at the end of the day, as long as you're sweeping, ain't nobody going to bother you. Oh, yeah, just cleaning up this area. You can be standing around talking to your friends for a whole hour, and then the boss start coming. As long as you know where that broom at, you're about, oh, shoot, yeah, man, I'm just cleaning this up right quick, and then I'm going to get over there to aisle 7 and start working on them bays and stuff over there and unloading and, you know, working on the back stock and stuff. Oh, that would be a move for me, too. I love to tell people, hey, pull up on me. I'm just at work. I ain't doing nothing. They come over there. They just start talking. Hey, man, tell me what's been going on. What you been up to lately? Now, I'm acting like I'm working, but I'm just standing over here on aisle 6 talking to my friends. But, yeah, so that's the thing about it, man. I think people start knowing the ins and outs of these businesses and how things work. Don't let them people overwork y'all. You can't let them overwork. But at the same time, it's so easy to step. Anybody that done worked in a business that done had, like, to do stock and had, like, inventory, they know every time inventory check come around, the count ain't never right. So what's to say the count is off by five more this year? And if I make the count off by five more, then that mean I could take these five items. Nobody would ever know they're gone. Larry sounds like somebody who would be sitting here telling the prosecutor he don't recall because he thought about that too much, which leads me to believe that people should be concerned. All I'm saying is, you know, saying sometimes the inventory is truly messed up. Sometimes the inventory. However, the inventory shows is accurate, though. You know, because at the end of the day, if you miss a five items, you miss a five items. Now, those numbers were inputted improperly. Bending the law. It's not an employment law.