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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by pradocchia on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @04:52PM (#7630365)
It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Can you elaborate on the first part? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by hoggle on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:34PM (#7630620)
Sorry, the sentence really is a bit off.

The point I was trying to make was essentially that it seems logical to me that a higher crime rate can be connected to substantial inequalities in terms of opportunities / wealth.

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by pradocchia on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:11PM (#7631289)
Having to switch to the other side of the street or having to circumvent a dangerous block is a loss of freedom, a kind of coercion born of inequality, normalized by the very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Yes, I think so too.

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