Or like you're paid $6/hr to do migrant farm work when the minimum wage is $12. That adds up much more quickly and leads people to turn to things like theft.
That's already half your net worth right there.
> Robbery, pickpocketing, car stolen
The average person, even the average person in poverty, is not going to lose the majority of their net worth from pickpocketing, that's just absurd.
Now you're adding in two other crimes, which you didn't mention in your original comment, (you just said pickpocketing is worse than wage theft). Most people in poverty don't own cars in the first place.
My reaction wasn't knee-jerk - the suggestion that pickpocketing is some sort of epidemic across America affecting the nation's poor is just absurd on face.
Or like you're paid $6/hr to do migrant farm work when the minimum wage is $12. That adds up much more quickly and leads people to turn to things like theft.
That's already half your net worth right there.
> Robbery, pickpocketing, car stolen
The average person, even the average person in poverty, is not going to lose the majority of their net worth from pickpocketing, that's just absurd.
Now you're adding in two other crimes, which you didn't mention in your original comment, (you just said pickpocketing is worse than wage theft). Most people in poverty don't own cars in the first place.
My reaction wasn't knee-jerk - the suggestion that pickpocketing is some sort of epidemic across America affecting the nation's poor is just absurd on face.