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You unwittingly (or maybe purposefully but few spotted it so far) tripped on the Moral Core of the matter.
Somebody tricking the McDonald's system for personal upside maximization isn't the class warrior so many are portraying here, rather he's just another greedy fucker with a swindle that just so happens to target a large corpo.
A class warrior would be trying to make things better for everybody, not just himself.
I can see how his date's take on this might have been that he's a guy who is dishonest for his own gain, which is hardly the kind of person you want to get in a relationship with.
Further, somebody with their own decent notebook and the technical knowhow to run Android emulators is almost certainly not poor and actually needing to do this, which would be the only valid reason to do it.
I don't view it through the lens of Marxism. Rather, I see this simply as cheating a cheater. The whole reason McD's is pushing the app is to gamify the experience, take advantage of people's psychological weaknesses, and trick them into paying more than they otherwise wood. I see this as just scamming the scammers.
capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction.