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How has crime been going down despite material conditions getting worse? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As we all know here, material conditions have progressively been getting worse and worse. Based on pretty much all political theory, crime rates should also be going up with worse material conditions. But they haven't, in fact, crime rates have been going consistently down for the past 30 or so years. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

one thing is that a lot of crime is due to desperation or an attempt to get by in a society that has robbed the criminal of legitimate means. crimes of necessity and/or opportunity are what you are thinking of

but we live in a world where everything is a scam and we now have two generations who have a large number of people who see our country for that: one big corporate pyramid scheme

so for this new budding mass of the working class they have figured out a number of ways to scam the scam. we even get notice from the ruling class about this panic: "quiet quitting" where you take a paycheck and conserve energy to running a side hustle or the people who work multiple bullshit jobs remotely at the same exact time or just the sheer amount of people ive known to accept that stealing from your company is fine (literal company property or just good ole time theft)

and petty crime crimes of opportunity and necessity become less appealing, after all why risk imprisonment when you can run your own little scam and get one back over on our corporate masters without fear of losing your "freedom"

these are the "crimes" of the new generation who work from home. no-collar crime