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Re:Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost fr... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:58PM (#13478067)
Pretty much all the crime in rural areas is a side effect of drugs. There isn't enough anonymity in those areas to actually be a career criminal (other than dealing drugs).
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Re:Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost fr... by clock_tower on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:37PM (#13484397)
These societies' problems are certainly not recent, and they're not just due to drugs. For Appalachia, read _Albion's Seed_ or at least Slate Star Codex's review ("the sensibility is positively Orcish"); for Sicily, read Peter Turchin's _War and Peace and War_ (watch for the section on "asabiyya black holes"), and probably _The Moral Basis of a Backwards Society_. Both of these societies have been absolutely awful for centuries.
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