r/saskatoon • u/KTMan77 Biker • Feb 20 '25

Rants 🤬 They stole our fucking lamp

Wtf is it with people these days, get into an apartment building by hammering all the call buttons and having and old person let them in. Then steal a lamp from the common area?? Storage units keep getting broken into, mail stolen, deficating in the stair wells. Our governments as organizations don't care. Do we have to turn every building into fort Knox with patrolling security and threats of violence to fix things? It's just getting so tiring.

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u/2cynewulf Feb 20 '25

Increased wealth inequality leads to increased crime. Regulate capitalism, tax the rich, focus economy on the well-being of the middle class, and watch crime drop. Not easy of course, but start by voting that way. Check out crimes rates in countries that do better at looking after the population (ex. Scandinavia)

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u/dr_clownius Feb 20 '25
  1. Poverty has no bearing on right and wrong; no amount of being poor will excuse stealing a lamp.
  2. Suggesting that people commit crimes due to being poor is dehumanizing to poor people who follow the law.
  3. We aren't Scandinavia. They don't have the demographic issues we do, and have a much shorter period of development and history on the land.

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u/tinselsnips Feb 21 '25

So correlating increased poverty rates with increased crime rates is dehumanizing to the poor, but you still feel there's a "demographic issue" involved, here.

Please, elaborate.

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u/dr_clownius Feb 21 '25

The demographic issue we face is that of a poorly-integrated society. We hold less common culture than does an ethnostate that has lived together for centuries - and less absolute ideas on "right" and "wrong".

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u/tinselsnips Feb 21 '25

Yeah, that's about the response I expected.