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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Or could it be that the same sorts of people that are prone criminal activity are prone to poverty?
My own father grew up first in a Kansas farm house with a dirt floor, then a similar farm house in Eastern Washington. My mother in law did the same in Minnesota and, being the oldest kid in a family in which their mother abandoned them, wound up raising her younger siblings on a farm her father did not own. My father in law grew up on a pig farm that the family subsequently lost (it wasn't theirs anyway, they were "share cropping"). Literally "dirt poor", every one of them.
Not a single one of these people ever stole a goddamned thing in their lives.
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I know, I know, but its not all just black and white. I grew up in a working class family. Dad didn't make any money but was able to buy a home, a roof over our heads. I never stole anything but a candy or two. I use to eat those small pieces of chocolate from the bins at the market when no one was looking. My sister and I were candy deprived. Go and live in Compton / So central and come back and tell me if that will change your mind. Leave your laptop in your car and see what happens. Now on the other hand, in a middle or upper middle class neighborhood, leave your things in the car and I bet It will b e there the next morning. Sure, bad things happens no matter where in a large city.