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I'd suggest that our living arrangement (get isolated from community, earn and spend money to purchase a simulacrum of what community used to provide) has a lot
by jchrisa 16y ago
I'd suggest that our living arrangement (get isolated from community, earn and spend money to purchase a simulacrum of what community used to provide) has a lot to do with the bleakness of American life, and bleakness is probably a bigger predictor of criminality than anything else. If you want to fix the US, go back 60 years and fight highway and auto subsidies.
- jdminhbg 16y agoGiven that crime rates are vastly higher in walkable urban settings than sprawling suburbs, I'd suggest that highway subsidies are a poor indicator of crime rates.
- nitrogen 16y agoPossible explanation: the highway subsidies led to the middle and upper-middle classes leaving the cities, leaving only those too poor to afford a move (because they can't afford the added transportation costs, etc.).
- bugsy 16y agoViolent crime rates in the US are really high in rural areas right now due to drugs and gang activity.