"Less to lose" is a pretty coarse attribution. While true tautologically, I would argue that it is misleading. The poor lack the power to institutionalize vio

"Less to lose" is a pretty coarse attribution. While true tautologically, I would argue that it is misleading. The poor lack the power to institutionalize violence. The overwhelming bulk of violence is institutional. Large populations of poor imply small, threatened, populations of rich, who institutionalize the violence required to preserve their power, and then use their control to insure that their violence is left out of the accounting.