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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by luegen on Sunday October 03, 2021 @08:56AM (#28736833)
Petty theft is more an issue of economic inequality. If the criminal had an incentive for being honorable citizens, then theft would not happen.
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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by barry-cotter on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:42AM (#28737083)
Have you so little respect for people that you think they are all thieves? In India and China, countries in which most of the top 10% by income would fall below the US poverty line most people never steal. Theft is not mostly about poverty.
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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by cassianoleal on Sunday October 03, 2021 @10:06AM (#28737236)
Weird take. Petty theft (like the one being discussed here) can definitely be correlated with inequality.

I agree that most people will not steal. That's been my experience of growing up in a country with rampant poverty and inequality (and crime).

That said, the more people are in need, the more incentive for them to look for solutions outside of a system that has inherently failed them and the people they know.

I have myself been robbed and assaulted multiple times. I have had relatives kidnapped. Cars stolen leaving or entering their own garage, sometimes in nice areas of the city. I have been myself held at gunpoint by both criminals and police. The house I grew up in has been burglarised multiple times. I have not once, and don't know a single person who has been assaulted or robbed by a middle or upper class person.

There is probably also some correlation between white collar crime and corruption, and poverty, but I suspect the direction of causality goes the other way around in this case.

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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by gruez on Sunday October 03, 2021 @01:08PM (#28738703)
> Weird take. Petty theft (like the one being discussed here) can definitely be correlated with inequality.

Source?

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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by mensetmanusman on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:00AM (#28736857)
Not sure. If you add up damages from theft, by far the rich and powerful steal more in absolute terms.
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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by ir123 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @10:49AM (#28737608)
But that's not petty theft
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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by mensetmanusman on Sunday October 03, 2021 @01:57PM (#28739080)
Not necessarily, insider trading steals a dollar from a few million people. It is petty theft at scale.
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Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video] by simonh on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:48AM (#28737113)
True, but not relevant to whether Apple should make parts available or not. Apple’s repairability policy isnt going to alleviate income inequality, but it could have an effect on phone theft.
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