America is Fucked
America is Fucked
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- shapesalad1
- as long as they're stealing from big corporations and ultimately hurting no one but investors who cares? no security guard is going to risk his life for profits_niko
- does trust-fund Timmy deserve a free x-box more than ghetto Timmy? Trust -fund Timmy's dad is a bigger criminal than ghetto Timmy's could ever dream of being._niko
- all we see in the news is grocery stores and retailers making record profits by charging us up the ass because of their fake inflation, do I give a shit if_niko
- someone steals a $50 steak or a $100 bottle of wine? or fills up their gas tank and takes off? all the power to them, it's modern day Bolshevism._niko
- cue Captain Capitalism in 4..3..2.._niko
- When businesses close due to crime and insecurity, cities have less money to tax. When cities have less money, they start looking like Tijuana and Tegucigalpahotroddy
- Who's going to replace CVS, Rite-Aid Wallgreens, etc? Will you put up the money for a Bergdorf Goodman or Barneys when they go under?hotroddy
- Retailers are making record profits because they are shutting down all the loss leaders they invested in poorer communities.hotroddy
- and then poorer communites feel disenfranchised and blame evil corporationshotroddy
- allowing looting in malls and commercial centers is analog to Venezuela 20 years go. They shut down to never return. Everyone is poorer 4 ithotroddy
- The broader statement is the decline in people being respectful and civil... an affect of demographics and economics?shapesalad
- very few societies enjoy the civility you are accustomed to. It's 100% geography-based. The closer you get to the equator the less courtesy people practice.hotroddy
- it was a survival tactic to combat harsh northern winters historically and culturally. And it's evolved divergently in the west and east.hotroddy
- queue Venezuela.pango
- queue equatorial countrieshotroddy
- Ya blame it on the latitudepango