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>Lets take the famous example of low income area gang activity.

That's the perfect example! Street drug dealers make less than minimum wage. Why bother with the risk of prison, death, and on top of it get paid the equivalent of $4/hour when you could go make $14/hour at a fast food job?

Because you actually like the sheer hell of what you're doing.

>you have to put up with boredom, l

And how the fuck are we supposed to solve that problem for them with welfare? You'll notice you even list that first, poverty and lack of social support come, in your mind, second to boredom. I think we're actually in agreement here on the problem, just you want to pretend that there is a solution to this problem.





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