> Same thing with ripping up train tracks to sell for scrap metal, which happens in some parts of the world.
This happens at times in the Netherlands too, and I bet many other affluent places, which sort of half invalidates your point. It's just theft. Theft also happens in places where most people aren't poor.
I don't know a single place in the world that managed to distribute sufficiently much wealth sufficiently evenly that crime never pays.
This happens at times in the Netherlands too, and I bet many other affluent places, which sort of half invalidates your point. It's just theft. Theft also happens in places where most people aren't poor.
I don't know a single place in the world that managed to distribute sufficiently much wealth sufficiently evenly that crime never pays.