Excellent post there m8!
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Originally Posted by BBKing
Nyet, tovarich. Glad to lay your mind at rest there. Remember to check under your bed tonight and ring Joe McCarthy if you see anyone you suspect of Bolshevism.
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You can flippantly laugh but I have had family members hauled off for execution by communists and both of my parents lost their homes to communism.
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However, history does tend to show that suddenly increasing inequality and freedom (particularly freedom of movement) in a state does lead to rocketing crime
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We haven't had a
sudden introduction of inequality here in the UK and as for using the USSR and RSA as examples--the problem there was that both of those countries had opressive govts(and more importantly, security services) removed overnight which has predictably resulted in the crime rates going up-less to do with inequality and more to do with a lack of proper policing
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Two obvious things are reducing unemployment and increasing minimum wages. Those have *direct* effects on reducing inequality and therefore reducing crime rates. However, the jobs have to be good jobs, rewarding and well-paid. Better education helps, too.
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Better education needed-absolutely agree
Good jobs however cannot be magicked up (especially without also increasing the wealth of those who are dolling out the jobs-bit of a vicious circle really
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Lack of proper upbringing - case study......<snip>
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Personally, I don't think that he got a proper upbringing (for several reasons)
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Originally Posted by andyl
So you're too poor to pay the tram
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Then you shouldn't be on the tram in the first place
