>> Try giving equal opportunities to people instead of passing the message: "you are born poor, and such you shall remain" and see that people might be less inc

>> Try giving equal opportunities to people instead of passing the message: "you are born poor, and such you shall remain" and see that people might be less inclined to become criminals. Why would poor people be more inclined to become criminals? I know plenty of poor people who aren't, who break their backs trying to make ends meet working multiple jobs. There are plenty of people (whom I do not know personally) who end up homeless because they can't provide for themselves for many different reasons, and who do not resort to violent crime. If poor people are more inclined to become criminals, then most Africans, Indians, Afghans, etc, should be so "more inclined to become criminals". Well, that's exactly what those people argue who want to control migration for their own political gains. That's what Nigel Farage was doing when he stood in front of that poster with the line of refugees fleeing the war in Syria: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farage-defends-ukip-breaking-point-poster-queue-of-migrants https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag... (He was trying to terrorise the British with the spectre of poor -and foreign!- people entering the UK in large numbers.) Equating poor people with violent crime is making some kind of fundamental mistake in reasoning.