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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The poor aren’t getting poorer, and the great majority of poor people do not steal. Crime is more strongly associated with social breakdown and chaotic upbringings than with poverty. You can go to very poor parts of the world where crime rates are low, because people still have strong social cohesion.
Pretty good odds the guys who ripped off Street Pharmacist were not poor people driven to stealing. They’re likely predatory, low-IQ young men who want the good things in life (booze, drugs, sunglasses, playstations, prostitutes) without having to work a real job to get them. A lot of young men steal for the same reason they rape - they want things but they’re too dumb, lazy, or malicious to get them the way non-criminals get them.
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It doesn't have to be one or the other. I would argue that a big part (maybe the biggest part) of the social breakdown is the ever-increasing chasm between rich and poor, the growing number of poor and the shrinking middle-class.