The effect of income equality on societies...

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Kasz216 said:

mrstickball said:

Kai Master said:
I heard that economists say above 2500 euros/month this is economically counter-productive and weakens the economy... I don't know the truth but more inequality = more violence (look at the US).

Actually, as inequality has risen in the US, crime has went down significantly.

 

Now compare crime rate:

 

If you research crime rates and underlying factors, I don't think inequality is the one you'd want to correlate.

Yeah, they just had a report on this on NPR the other day about how ironically crime has gone down even as the economy has gotten worse and policemen have been laid off.

Yep.

Culture, parentage, and education have a far greater effect on crime than base inequality. The real issue of inequality and crime is if the 'have nots' have litterally nothing. In America, those who are in the 'have nots' have phones, cars, cable TV and so on, therefore have no motivation to partake in crime for that reason. Comparatively, if they haven't been taught by parents or schools properly, they have a tendency to lash out. Thus why we saw the meteoric rise of crime in the US after the baby boom of the 1940s and 50s, and the notable decline after the rise of abortion causing falling birth rates in the 1970s.