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People involved in petty crime don't tend to live in 750k homes. Being a felon doesn't usually leave room for that sort of luxury.
by humanrebar 7y ago
People involved in petty crime don't tend to live in 750k homes. Being a felon doesn't usually leave room for that sort of luxury.
- wpietri 7y agoIf you think wealth has nothing to do with crime, you should meet more rich people. Paul Manafort is an instructive example here, as is Jeffery Epstein. Felony and luxury go together just fine. I'd be much more comfortable trusting my younger relatives among people who make the median income than people in the 1% or, worse, the 0.1%.
- kaitai 7y agoI think it's petty crime that doesn't pay, indeed. Stealing a pack of smokes from the convenience store just doesn't pay; manipulating regulations to benefit from lax enforcement of environmental law or gain tax breaks or otherwise pad your bank account is gentlemanly. I mean that in a somewhat literal sense: it was once true that "gentleman" meant a man possessing property, a member of the gentry. The section titled Sir George Sitwell in the Wikipedia article on the word "gentleman" is amusing and to the point.
- humanrebar 7y agoPeople feel relatively unsafe around muggings, shootings, burglaries, and the like. And people who do that do not have 750k homes. People will pay a premium to be far away from that sort of activity, especially if that activity is taking place in and around the schools their kids attend. There are rich crooks, yes, but that's beside the point here.
- wpietri 7y agoIf you care about your kids' safety, that is not at all beside the point. Again, consider Epstein. Or more generally, think about how the kids of rich sociopaths will treat other kids.