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What would be stopping people from taking the aid and stealing the scooters anyway? You can only rely so much on the inherent goodness of humans. Add organized
by forgetfulness 3y ago
What would be stopping people from taking the aid and stealing the scooters anyway? You can only rely so much on the inherent goodness of humans.
Add organized crime into the mix and you run into the problem that might makes right for plenty of people, specially if there's easy money and "respect" involved.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoWhat is driving people to steal the scooters if not the need to pay for food and housing?
- alexb_ 3y agoMoney? Plenty of people exist that lack any sort of empathy, and theft is just a risk vs reward calculation. If there's no punishment for getting caught, and reward for not getting caught, then you should always take that gamble. When you completely eliminate all social trust in a society, all empathy is lost and theft just becomes a mathematical equation of risk and reward.
- ryandrake 3y ago> When you completely eliminate all social trust in a society, all empathy is lost and theft just becomes a mathematical equation of risk and reward. Almost exactly like how corporations operate. If the profit for doing XYZ is greater than the probability of getting caught times the expected penalty, you do XYZ.
- forgetfulness 3y agoGreed and selfishness are common human flaws, and that's just thinking of individual petty thieves; ambitious, enterprising and ruthless criminals are apt to see business and power they can secure if they are unopposed.
- HPsquared 3y agoA desire for luxuries, and a disregard for other people.
- momirlan 3y agolet me quote from a pickpocket i met in Barcelona: "i sleep all day and at night i go out to steal. by morning i have a big stash of cash, life is good". he was not motivated by hunger or poverty, just having a good time, and what he perceived as a good life