@matrix turns out when you build a culture around extreme selfishness and narcissism coupled with widespread poverty and lack of social and economic mobility, people don't behave well

@animeirl Except US has one of the most richest poor people.
Poverty doesn't cause crime, but crime does cause poverty.
And if it was selfishness and narcissism, just letting them do it isn't going to help anything.

@matrix Poverty absolutely does cause crime. Impoverished people end up living in poorer, crime ridden neighborhoods, more exposed to crime, more likely to get involved, it's a self-reinforcing cycle that never ends due to the incredibly low socioeconomic mobility in the USA.
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@animeirl @matrix People don't do crime out of necessity unless they're like literally starving. In the US the poor are fatter and more idle than the non-poor. They're more anti-social because that's their nature

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