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Isn’t looking poor a good strategy for being an unattractive target for theft?

• kragen 1y ago
  No, police punish theft from rich people, not theft from poor people.
  • chatmasta 1y ago
    Good thing my backpack was stolen so I won’t look poor when I go into the police station to report the theft.
  • xp84 1y ago
    Police (and DA) in SF don't punish any theft from anyone in my experience.
• mistersquid 1y ago
  > Isn’t looking poor a good strategy for being an unattractive target for theft? Looking poor is also an expression of wealth where wealth is defined money one has not yet spent which provides options in the future. (Source "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel.)
  • firefax 1y ago
    Also keyword is "looking" poor. 300 hundred dollar jeans, fifty thousand dollar hybrid civics -- meanwhile, my Casio got a lot of curt remarks.
    • happyopossum 1y ago
      > fifty thousand dollar hybrid civics Bro - the highest trim line civic hybrid has an MSRP under $35k…
      • klooney 1y ago
        Type R gets up there
        • happyopossum 1y ago
          Type R isn’t the hybrid civic