Safety nets are weak in the US and thats not counting the side effects it has like welfare traps. As Wells pointed out nations with better social safety nets tend to have less crime.
Unless the majority of crime is done because of complicated love lifes and the majority of those individuals are either psycopaths and/or socipaths I fail to see the relevance of this."This explains the things except for the things it doesn't explain which also happen to be the most important things"
No its more of a scenario in which the individual weights the costs of his crime vs the reward. Poverty tends to make the reward much more desirable.Huh, not being able to comprehend abstract ideas and failing to plan ahead. It's almost like there's something more that leads to this situation than simply being poor.
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Because the model I presented you has crime related to acquiring money. Change wage with another thing the criminal gets utility from and it still is a utility maximization function.
Better doesn't mean perfect, and it doesn't protect against people that have personality disorders and /or crimes of passion.
Why? Because you say so? You do realize that there are different levels of rationality across the human spectrum, right? People that have different personalities and intelligences?
They can be. They can also be far more enjoyable. And, as you say, not everyone cares about living to old age.
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Stay in school, the education is free until post-secondary and at that point you can get loans to cover you. Ironically enough the schools with the lowest graduation rates are the easiest to graduate from with good grades for people that actually give a shit.
As for criminal records ruining prospects, that just sounds like more of a reason for crime not paying off. You won't get convicted if you don't do anything.
And yet safety nets don't prevent crime and plenty of people of means commit crime as well.
So you think all violent crime is from love lives and psycopathy?Unless the majority of crime is done because of complicated love lifes and the majority of those individuals are either psycopaths and/or socipaths I fail to see the relevance of this.
No its more of a scenario in which the individual weights the costs of his crime vs the reward. Poverty tends to make the reward much more desirable.
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What is irritating me is people actually CRYING ... physically CRYING that he won and is now president.
Like holy fuck. People at work are doing that and I have to hold back from telling them to grow the fuck up.
If you don't like the way democracy works, immigrate to China or the Middle East!
So guys will you laugh more if he manages to build the wall or when he realizes he can't?
great time for america. the failure is out of the White House.
and america comes first again, then other countries.
great time to be an american.
Awesome, just ran out of stuff to watch on Netflix - America the Series should make for some good viewing.
I think this is only true for a small minority of people - which tend to infest online forums, since in real life nobody really wants to listen to their ideas, so we see a larger representation of them here than overall in the world/country. Most people supporting him are just misguided, they bought into his populist rhetoric, but they don't feel all that strongly about the issues. Much like with Bush, who was abandoned even by his most faithful supporters soon after he's done some things almost no one approves of.
Trump is going to screw up much bigger than Bush, so... I think even not getting impeached in the 4 years would be quite an achievement for him.
Generally, you're not supposed to lose civil rights once you've gained them in this country. He will be potentially appointed and AG and SCJ's that have a chance of reversing that trend. The people affected, and their loved ones, have every right to be upset by those prospects.
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Ahh, so you're one of the ones that think kids magically raise themselves! Good to know.
So, outside of you being demonstrably wrong about the bolded part, you do understand that the human brain isn't fully developed until years after we start charging people as adults, right? You can't drink a beer until 21, but you can be tried as an adult as young as 13 in some places.
Once again, you have to look at the motivations. People actually have a bunch of them.
And hardened repeat offenders and drug users. I'm sure there are several other groups. 'Violent crime' is also a huge grouping that includes tons of crimes with a profit motive.
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Boom goes the dynamite.
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If you could name ONE good thing that might actually get done while Trump is president, you might have a point. As it stands though, the team he has in place looks about ready to set the country back half a century in just about every place they can get their hands into, while at least 70% of the people he wants appointed to positions are completely unsuited to actually running them, and there is a good chance that the only people who are going to see any benefit at all from whatever they do manage to do are going to be the 1% and the big corporations.
Oh, and dont forget, Trump's government actually has to, you know, govern. Which is going to be fun, considering huge swaths of positions needed to make it run are currently vacant, since his administration basically told everybody installed under Obama that they were not staying on after the transition, while simultaneously having nobody ready to fill many of the positions being vacated.
There is no 'cutting them loose'. Do you think a hospital CEO is going to take a loss because more people are coming in through the E.R. and not paying? Hell no. He's going to raise the price on that MRI from $800 to $1600, and the 'taxpayer's insurance premiums are going to go up another 18%.
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Well, we aren't a democracy. We are Constitutional Federal Republic. Each state votes for a candidate, not the people directly. And that is because each state is an individual nation within the Federation.
The original idea was that each state would essentially govern itself with the Federal government protecting the rights of the people in those states.
The election worked exactly as it is intended. The majority of states voted against the minority of the states.