Quote (SBD @ May 19 2023 09:10am)
Poverty breads crime and crime obviously isn't desirable. Some groups have had significant advantage over others for prolonged periods of time resulting in disparity. For a lot of people employment exists in inner cities and people can only afford rundown shit hole neighbourhoods. That's reality.
I don't think single moms living below the poverty line are happy about living in a slum, I'm fairly certain they would be pretty happy with a nice suburban neighbourhood home.
We can dive deep into the hole but that conversation has been had on here a million times and typically devolves into reasons why there's poverty and one side saying stop being poor.
I'm not talking about moving to a wealthy suburb - you can do that if you're wealthy enough, but it's better for people to move away from cities entirely.
The cost of living is dramatically cheaper away from cities - "being poor" is not an argument. The insane cost of living in cities keeps people poor.
I would also add that the "poverty causes crime" is overly reductive and is frankly false - it has been proven that relative, not absolute, poverty is a main driver for crime - and of course you see this at its extreme in cities, where every person is either very wealthy or very poor with no middle ground.
Add onto that the reality of ghetto black culture. Poor black people commit crime at a dramatically higher rate than other ethnicities, while controlling for all other factors. Thomas Sowell has disseminated this at length.
This post was edited by El1te on May 19 2023 10:28am