Random Thoughts

[The Architect Of Fate]

I had a person once tell me they didn't accept that poverty caused crime because poverty had gone down over the centuries. I promptly reminded him that while net overall poverty has gone down. Relative poverty still exists and even during periods of economic prosperity poverty can still be high.


He also believed the link between poverty and crime started during the 1960s. I didn't know Aristotle was around in 1960.

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Aristotle

Or Plato

"When he has nothing left, must not his [mankind's] desires, crowding in the nest like young ravens, be crying aloud for food; and he, goaded on by them, and especially by love himself, who is in a manner the captain of them, is in a frenzy, and would fain discover whom he can defraud or despoil of his property, in order that he may gratify them? "

Plato