greenglasstree t1_jdauxth wrote on March 23, 2023 at 1:46 AM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Other states.. by Imaginary_Kangaroo80

I feel like it doesn't always. If you compare Southeast Asia to Latin America, they are at similar levels of socioeconomic development yet Southeast Asia is far less violent.

Bhutan is a great example of a poor country that is not violent.

dragoninahat t1_jdazfnp wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:19 AM

Do you know if there's similar rates of income inequality as well? I'm curious if that plays into it.

FourAM t1_jdc8i9x wrote on March 23, 2023 at 11:08 AM

Yeah I think that “we all collectively get by on very little” vs “I had a nice home and my dickhead landlord priced me out of it because everyone else was doing the same to their tenants” is a big motivating factor in “I turned to crime”

dragoninahat t1_jddmj29 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:15 PM

Yeah, that would be my assumption too. I'm not sure if stats back it up in general. But it makes sense as poor and rich are comparative, looking at 1000 years ago or whatever and what's poor and rich is very different.

greenglasstree t1_jdey2pl wrote on March 23, 2023 at 10:18 PM

I think it's the income inequality more than poverty.

If it were poverty and low education, you'd see more homicide in Sub-Saharan Africa than Latin America.