Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
The only way you could actually come close to eliminating all crime would be if you eliminated poverty. But that would make the rich less rich, so not gonna happen.
I’d like to focus the existance on J. Epstein, D. Trump and the concept of wage theft to illustrate my point of poverty and crime not being inherently related.
Eliminating poverty will help reduce some crimes- those of need- but those of greed or malice will be unimpeded.
Thats why I said “come close” - there are plenty of crimes committed by the ultra wealthy.
However, those aren’t the kind of crimes this kind of mass surveillance is targeting either. They are trying to get rid of petty crime, gang violence, theft… stuff like that. And those kinds of crimes would almost dissapear entirely if you eliminated poverty.
If money was no object there would be a lot less poor people selling their kids to human traffickers
Rich people murder each other too
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Or if you just kept everyone in a closely monitored prison so that only people above the law could commit crimes without fear of consequences.
Like in China there isn’t really much of an issue with petty theft anymore bc people are afraid of getting caught, but corruption is through the fucking roof. Just not a crime you would be punished for bc it requires a position of power to commit it in the first place
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yup, just like how wage theft is an order of magnitude or two bigger problem than petty theft and shoplifting, but they just ignore it or even worse legalize / normalize it.