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It’s amazing that people accept we live under capitalism and accept that MIT physics graduates will work 80+ hours a week at a quant trading firm just to make m
by RC_ITR 3y ago
It’s amazing that people accept we live under capitalism and accept that MIT physics graduates will work 80+ hours a week at a quant trading firm just to make money, but we somehow believe that people who have no other options won’t resort to crime.
The crime people are mad about in SF is petty theft of consumer packaged goods and food, with some opportunistic car robberies. That is the crime this org would try to fight. If your implication is that these criminals are just morally bankrupt people, I find that thesis much more demeaning and implausible.
EDIT: Don’t forget that the guy called himself “poor” and claims he isn’t now. The problem isn’t lack of money now, it’s lack of opportunity. That guy didn’t steal because he knew it would limit future opportunities.
Being poor doesn’t cause crime, being impoverished with not hope for a better life following the law is.
- polski-g 3y agoThere are millions of "impoverished" people in NYC. Yet the NYPD came out and said that 85% of all property crime is committed by less than 600 individuals. Not a smattering of random poor people. Not a random sampling of the millions of poor people in the city. These specific 600 individuals. Yes: they are morally bankrupt individuals. They commit crime because they chose to, not because they are "poor".
- RC_ITR 3y ago> that 85% of all property crime is committed by less than 600 individuals. I’d like to know how an organization that claims they cannot find/arrest the suspects in nearly any property crime can also claim with such certainty that they know exactly who commits these crimes. Doesn’t really make sense, does it?