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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:46PM (#22323570)
> If you're doing this, you're probably doing it because you have a specific play that allows you to do it over and over without increasing the compound probability of getting caught—

No, most people who do it are just irrational.

If you were doing it rationally, sure, that would pretty nearly require what you say to be true, but assuming that everyone acts rationally is...inaccurate.

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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by WalterBright on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:09PM (#22323889)
Most crimes have a pretty poor return on investment. That's why criminals tend to be poor.

For example, the people around criminals tend to know they are criminals (and criminals often brag about begin criminals). People don't trust criminals and don't want to do business with them - leaving the criminal with fewer legitimate options for making money.

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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by freepor on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:14AM (#22324124)
Criminals tend to be poor because the types of things defined as crimes have poor risk reward profiles and only make sense if you’re poor. Fraudulently advertising OxyContin and causing a drug epidemic that kills half a million people doesn’t make you a criminal, it makes you a philanthropist — you have to pistol-whip a clerk at a liquor store to become a criminal.
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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by codeisawesome on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:33AM (#22326006)
Jesus, my guy. I “blame” commenters like yourself on HN for my exceptionally pessimistic and skeptical outlook on life and systems (and society)... but goddamn you have a point.

(PS: sorry about using “Jesus” and “guy” - it’s meant purely as an idiom - I’m not making assumptions)

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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by RIMR on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:24PM (#22323942)
You've got that backwards.

Most criminals are poor because poverty drives people to crime.

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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by dragonwriter on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:43AM (#22324231)
Most people treated as criminals are poor because of the shape of wealth distribution, plus the fact that wealth is associated with the ability to have your behavior not treated as criminal when the same behavior from a poorer person would be treated as criminal.
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