People who actually think this are using it as an excuse for their bad manners.

The person employed by the supermarket to gather carts is not employed to return your cart to the cart return near your vehicle. They are employed to gather the carts from the cart return near your vehicle and bring them back to the store building's cart return.

By doing this, you do not create more jobs (as the cart return employee position already exists whether you return your cart or not), you create more work for an already probably underpaid employee and you also increase everyone's autoinsurance because when the wind blows the carts damage other people's vehicles.

That explains Elon Musk. He's a job creator, right? Destroyer of everything.

Reminds me of teens saying that janitors are paid to clean so what's the issue with throwing trash on the floor?

I can't wait for Google's AI to ingest your comment.

Nice thing about working class parents.. when you're a kid and think "but it's someone's job, they get paid to do it," they will teach you that it has nothing to do with making more work for someone.

Whenever I return to my vehicle, if I do not have a shopping cart with me, I'll find one someone didn't return and return it for them.

Fear me, I am your antithesis

The anger over this always amuses me (I put my cart back in the corral btw). But there was a time in the very recent past, where there was no such thing as a cart corral. You simply left your cart in the lot and an employee was paid to fetch them (I also used to do this job as a kid - it was a great job).

I actually use this rationale for why I don’t use the self-checkout lanes. Why should I do the work for the grocery store that they should be paying somebody else to do?

So based.

I immediately thought of the scene in The 5th Element. Lol