There are various factors like not privileged like many others, no guidance what to choose, no time to up-skill with 12-14 hrs physical work and family etc. but my question is why would they become criminals? I’m not saying everyone will go for higher wages. Necessity will force to be in some other sector/ job.
As people become marginalized some will resort to crime. Desperate people do desperate things. Lose your job, home, family, get hooked on drugs … what else is left?. Even jail May be preferable to being homeless and strung out in the streets… besides drug abuse is the number one cause of crime.
What do you think will happen if they lose the employment they have? You think they’ll just watch Netflix all day?
Of course not! You have posted many times violent crimes are in decreasing trend and the world has changed so much in the past 100 yrs. Similar kind of doomsday prediction would have happened at every point of change and yet we are living ok. As I mentioned necessity will force to make people find ways to survive and not everyone will become criminal. I know many ppl in tech working in tech stack which will die soon but they are motivated to upgrade only if necessity arises.
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It’s about property crime not violent crime. Just look at the trend on organized retail theft. People feel entitled. They’ll take action whether that’s property crime or voting for more “free” stuff.
property crime rate fell 55%, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-69%), motor vehicle theft (-64%) and larceny/theft (-49%).
Any change in definition?
Democrats have solved the crime problem. Just steal all the money from producers and give it to slackers. Plus give them needles to can be constantly stoned. Brave New World by aldous Huxley
Richer society tends to have fewer crimes.
Automation => Higher worker productivity => Higher income => Fewer crimes
Yes, there are a million different things that can muck things up in this pipeline, but that’s the overall direction of human progress. Back in the 1800s most Americans worked on farms. Now only 1% of Americans do. Are people saying all these displaced farmers are criminals? No, they find other work. Before smart phones there were no Uber drivers. Before the Web there were no online sellers. Etc etc. Nothing to worry about.
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Most of the farmers displaced are criminals growing pot.
They are just good at not getting caught. I know several
So the ‘gateway to drug’ - alcohol is fine and we even boast about having it but cannabis which is a natural plant is somehow bad?
When asked about gun control you mentioned car crashes happen more and we need to be concerned about that more than the people being killed by guns. In property crimes nobody dies so let’s focus on car crash than being paranoia about automation will lead to mass property crimes.
You don’t care about organized retail crime? You don’t care about people breaking into cars or stealing parts from them?
Secular inflation is here though(i.e. the topic of the thread) 
It’s like me asking, are you not concerned about gun deaths. My answer will be same as yours
I am in favor of deregulation of pot cultivation. The fact that illegal pot can get $500/gram makes illegal growers rich. If deregulated, then Pot prices would crash and the dangers illegal growing cause would go away. If fact there is already a glut because law enforcement is looking the other way. And because there is already too much legal pot being grown. Alcohol is now actually moreregulated and harder for farmers to make money in the wine business.
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Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair, warned that cooling inflation would “bring some pain” to Americans through layoffs, weaker pay growth, and higher borrowing costs. He said that while the side effects are “unfortunate,” a failure to slow price growth and normalize the economy “would mean far greater pain.”
You buy this reasoning? This is a scared tactic. Any proof for the last sentence? Future is unpredictable. Somehow I feel that after feeding us excessively, he punches us in the guts.