Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft...
by dantheman on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:45PM
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Do you think the government is starved? At what level of spending would it not be starved?
Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft...
by floren on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:14PM
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Yep, but if the police aren't going to do anything I find it hard to blame the people in SF Chinatown who started doing their own patrols: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-Chinatown-patr...
Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft...
by jokethrowaway on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:47PM
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The government is incompetent at protecting people. Call the police and you'll see how it goes. And this is happening while the government is spending 13B per year. I wonder, where does the money go, if basic services are not provided?
I'd rather spend my money on a network of competing private protection companies if I didn't have to pay taxes for the police. Once the system is in place you can create all sort of charity based options - or tax funded, if you like the idea of forcefully stealing money from citizens' profit - to grant protection to those who can't afford it.
Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft...
by floren on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:41PM
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> I'd rather spend my money on a network of competing private protection companies if I didn't have to pay taxes for the police.
I'd prefer to fix the cops rather than sign up for a MetaCops subscription in my burbclave.
With the American System each year failing a larger and larger percentage of the population, while the upper elites continue to hoard wealth and starve the government, then it makes more and more poor people turn to illegal means to make money.
Much like drug gangs in the inner city. However this will also turn into the nasty spiral of gang-controlled neighborhoods chasing out legit economic activity and becoming even more poor.
What we need is a decent civil society. But America is an oligarchy and they've figured out how to use social media to block any meaningful populist progressive reform by organizing a sufficient opposition with astroturfing and fake news.