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Literally everybody I know would want to see both street crime and elite corruption addressed. Are you advocating for addressing one of them but not the other?

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Address the worst crimes first.

If you're making 6 figures and breaking the law because you're greedy, you should go to jail before the desperate unemployed street kids living one day at a time, risking their lives and freedom to make rent and buy groceries.

But stealing $10,000 worth of product from your local corner store is worse than embezzling $10,000 from a megacorp. And aren't most of these thieves using their ill-gotten gains to pay for drugs, not rent or groceries?

Did you ask one of your poorer friends before putting words into other peoples mouth?

I know my friends and family very well, so… yes? Certainly well enough to know that they do not subscribe to the extreme fringe idea that we need to solve elite crime before we can prosecute shoplifters.

By the way, the branch of my family that would count as poor are uniformly much more conservative than I am.

This type of article may help you understand:

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-...

Most companies affected by shoplifters are breaking the law everyday, so yeah corporate crime should be addressed before shoplifting.

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