baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Should've qualified that statement, true. I meant that you don't see middle class people looting JD Sports, stealing in such an immediate way, because their theft is more subtle, but equally theft. So, yep, what you say is true
This conjecture strikes me as completely unfounded. As Mr.Tea's little anecdote suggests even, or especially, those who are well-off and materially secure nevertheless steal out of sheer greed or criminal energy. Our current economic system, which really amounts to an institutionalised system of large-scale theft, encourages such ruthless and anti-social behaviour. I don't see any difference between a MIT-educated Goldman & Sachs banker enriching himself at the expense of others and any one of the London looters indiscriminately stealing from the big chain stores and small private businesses. If anything the latter causes lesser damage but I don't have sympathy for either. I'm also not interested in uncovering the alleged underlying socioeconomic causes for these riots. Rather, from a kind of Shakespearean view, I grasp these events as merely one of many manifestations of the general disorder and corruption of our times.