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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't understand how it is lost on people that crime will increase when crime at the very top of our society is not only not enforced but glorified and accepted and that anyone who follows the rules is somehow a cu%k.

The law is not being enforced on those at the top. There are no social norms any more. There is no culpability. There is glorification of getting over everyone else, avoiding taxes, skirting within the grey areas, trading state secrets, etc. Corporations are allowed to do what the he%k they want because they have power and money. The rhetoric surrounding the poor and minorities and immigrants is abysmal. Education is completely underfunded at the local level- not underfunded for admin/chromebook providers/ed tech companies (see corporations). 95% of local policing is a solution to problems that weren't handled by effective social policies. But I am sure that locking up even more kids and young adults will somehow have a better outcome and that those private prison corporations will make someone rich so they can do more "philanthropy" which as pointed out at the recent world economic forum, is just tax avoidance with a pretty bow on it. 
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I think you're on to something here.  There is a lot of class warfare right now between the Ultra Rich and everyone else - oddly some of that being actively stoked by the ultra rich...  The difference is the "not-quite-ultra-rich-but-still-well-off" people think they're part of that group too.  They aren't.  Some folks across the lower/middle ends of that spectrum are starting to rebel though, since they see that rules just simply don't apply to the ultra rich class why the heck should they still care either.  Property crime with abandon, the stupid paper license plates, increased car jackings to just take a joy ride (or rob a csv). At least a good chunk of this can just be chalked up to fatalism from a result of "these rules don't matter to the wealthy folks and [b][url=https://youtu.be/GtB95rneCso?si=lZh8w_Rj24TosC-L&t=73]Bodie told us the way it was years ago[/url][/b]."[/quote]

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