This was the conspiracy in the Robocop movie. One problem with it is that many of the people implementing it actually live in those cities. Yes, they are “progressive” Democrats who are soft on crime for ideological reasons, but they have armed guards, live in nice neighborhoods if not gated communities, etc.
Yeah but those rich people don't live in the city the same way regular people do. Like you said they have armed guards/security/etc.; they take cars everywhere so don't have to worry about crime on the street, and can avoid crime ridden areas entirely.
Even in a crime ridden shithole city there will always be at least a few blocks of the downtown/financial district/etc. that are well policed and protected. The rich stay wherever it's safe and let the rest of the city go to shit to do the scam the OP mentioned.
This was the conspiracy in the Robocop movie. One problem with it is that many of the people implementing it actually live in those cities. Yes, they are “progressive” Democrats who are soft on crime for ideological reasons, but they have armed guards, live in nice neighborhoods if not gated communities, etc.
Yeah but those rich people don't live in the city the same way regular people do. Like you said they have armed guards/security/etc.; they take cars everywhere so don't have to worry about crime on the street, and can avoid crime ridden areas entirely.
Even in a crime ridden shithole city there will always be at least a few blocks of the downtown/financial district/etc. that are well policed and protected. The rich stay wherever it's safe and let the rest of the city go to shit to do the scam the OP mentioned.
Even bright people, maybe even especially bright people, can be led astray by ideology.
that's the neat part. they are both incredibly malevolent and incredibly stupid.