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> Thanks, gonna disagree, “I’m gonna bury my head in the sand for no reason.” > citing a comedy TV series that ended in the 90s Your appeal to absurdity isn’
by kortilla 4y ago
> Thanks, gonna disagree,
“I’m gonna bury my head in the sand for no reason.”
> citing a comedy TV series that ended in the 90s
Your appeal to absurdity isn’t helping here. Shoplifting hasn’t changed since then and it was on the show precisely because of the weird social divide around it.
Let me help you out with some Wikipedia since you’re shooting from the gut on this one:
> Economists say shoplifting is common because it is a relatively unskilled crime with low entry barriers that can be fitted into a normal lifestyle. People of every nation, race, ethnicity, gender and social class shoplift. Originally, analysis of data about apprehended shoplifters and interviews with store detectives suggested that females were almost twice as likely as males to shoplift. However, since 1980, the data suggest that males are equally or more likely to shoplift than females. The average shoplifter first did it at the age of ten: shoplifting tends to peak in adolescence then steadily declines thereafter. People of all races shoplift equally, and poor people shoplift only slightly more than rich people.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoplifting#Economist_perspectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoplifting#Economist_perspect...