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Is the Recession creating a new Crimminal Class?

post #1 of 4
9/7/09 at 10:40pm
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Sparing with The Closer in the Healthcare thread gave me the idea to pose two questions:

Here in California we have thousands (millions?) of people who feel they were cheated: by the banks, by the politicians, by the Mortgage industry etc. Many of these people are just walking away from their homes and telling the banks to fuck off.

And many of these people are now out of a job and unable to find any work at all, or jobs that pay much less than they've ever made in years.

1) Will these people be stigmatized in years to come as criminals? I don't just mean will they have lousy credit (of course they will), I mean will their friends and neighbors look at them as fundamentally untrustworthy people?

2) Will there be a new class of people who simply feel that "the System" is rigged against them and will therefore actively work against "it"?

I'm thinking or statistically significant numbers here. What do you think?
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post #2 of 4
9/7/09 at 11:53pm
I think you mistake the nature of criminals if you think their goal is to work against the system. They're simply working a new system they create.

If you don't get people to buy into the system they'll make their own, they'll create their own economy.

And I don't think people who've lost their jobs and defaulted on their mortgages are going to be looked down on as criminals by their friends and neighbors, more likely they'll be treated as people who suffered a string of rotten luck.
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post #3 of 4
9/8/09 at 12:20pm
I think this is a story that is being underreported at best. Look into how many bank robberies your own town or city has had in the past year--you'll be surprised.
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post #4 of 4
9/8/09 at 2:55pm
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Originally Posted by Jack Dnim View Post
I think you mistake the nature of criminals if you think their goal is to work against the system. They're simply working a new system they create.

If you don't get people to buy into the system they'll make their own, they'll create their own economy.

And I don't think people who've lost their jobs and defaulted on their mortgages are going to be looked down on as criminals by their friends and neighbors, more likely they'll be treated as people who suffered a string of rotten luck.
I apologize for not being clear. What I mean to ask is, after the past few years, are there a group of people who have been alienated by "the System" enough to turn to crime (White collar, selling drugs etc) by their personal experiences being defrauded by their banks, Mortgage brokers etc? People who otherwise would have just struggled along as best they could?
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