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Why do you suppose this sort of thing has become so common?
Social media coordination?
Or just plain scum-bagginess that's become acceptable today?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12740697/Memphis-gas-station-loot-suspects-video.html

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As the rich get richer the poor get poorer and crime becomes more attractive to the lower classes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging

https://www.wsj.com/articles/homelessness-increasing-united-states-housing-costs-e1990ac7

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@athousandyoung said
As the rich get richer the poor get poorer and crime becomes more attractive to the lower classes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging

https://www.wsj.com/articles/homelessness-increasing-united-states-housing-costs-e1990ac7
So that makes them steal snacks and soft drinks at gas stations?

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@jj-adams said
So that makes them steal snacks and soft drinks at gas stations?
If you have nothing, you can ascribe no value to property. Smart folks figured out long ago that if you don't allow people to get enough stuff to live, legally, they'll never acquire respect for other people's property.

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@athousandyoung said
As the rich get richer the poor get poorer and crime becomes more attractive to the lower classes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging

https://www.wsj.com/articles/homelessness-increasing-united-states-housing-costs-e1990ac7
Americans do not know what real poverty is. The 'poorer' classes only know greed and laziness.

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@jj-adams said
Why do you suppose this sort of thing has become so common?
Social media coordination?
Or just plain scum-bagginess that's become acceptable today?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12740697/Memphis-gas-station-loot-suspects-video.html
Lack of respect for authority. I bet they wont dare do that in China.

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@kewpie said
If you have nothing, you can ascribe no value to property. Smart folks figured out long ago that if you don't allow people to get enough stuff to live, legally, they'll never acquire respect for other people's property.
Seems like they all got $200 sneakers and I-phones, so they do have something.
They also have some fancy grillwork on their teef as well as rims on their cars.

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@rajk999 said
Americans do not know what real poverty is. The 'poorer' classes only know greed and laziness.
They also seem to be pretty well-fed, America has the fattest poor people in the world.

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@jj-adams said
They also seem to be pretty well-fed, America has the fattest poor people in the world.
That's because fat food is cheaper than a healthy salad.

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@athousandyoung said
As the rich get richer the poor get poorer and crime becomes more attractive to the lower classes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging

https://www.wsj.com/articles/homelessness-increasing-united-states-housing-costs-e1990ac7
And morally more justifiable, how does jj think the rich get rich

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@rajk999 said
Lack of respect for authority. I bet they wont dare do that in China.
I bet they do you idiot. China, like Russia and to a large extent every nation on earth is kleptocracy

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@shavixmir said
That's because fat food is cheaper than a healthy salad.
Have you been to a McDonald's lately?
Big Mac combo meals are 14 dollars.
Fast food isn't cheap anymore.

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@rajk999 said
Americans do not know what real poverty is. The 'poorer' classes only know greed and laziness.
Americans are the people who had the balls to do what was needed to get out of real poverty. That's why we're Americans. We left the famines in India, China, and Ireland. We left Auschwitz. We left Sicily, Venezuela and Haiti.

Our ancestors left these sh**hole countries because we aren't willing to tolerate real poverty because we're not weak like the rest of you. So stfu about how you are so proud to tolerate poverty without doing anything about it. You are a lesser man than the Haitian gangsters who came to America. They had the balls not to tolerate the real poverty you're so proud of.

Maybe if your poor people had some balls your country wouldn't suffer real poverty either. I guess you're proud of how they've been ground into submission. How pathetic.

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@jj-adams said
Seems like they all got $200 sneakers and I-phones, so they do have something.
They also have some fancy grillwork on their teef as well as rims on their cars.
I don't see all that on the wretched people who stand outside 7-11 or hang out on Skid Row. Where do you go to observe poor people such that you see those things?

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@jj-adams said
So that makes them steal snacks and soft drinks at gas stations?
No. It makes them not care about the profits of big corporations because they know the big corporations don't care about them.

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