Theft is solved by making society better, not worse. Make people not want or reliant upon crime to survive.

mik1998 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No one relies on bike theft to "survive".

	▲	a2800276 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's right, people steal bikes because they are inherently evil and want to make baby Jesus cry. I think it's ok to define "survive" as an addict who needs (<-also loosely defined) a fix. You don't generally commit serious white collar crime, tax fraud or do crypto grifts to survive. For petty street crime, I don't really see any other motivation.

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adwn 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> Theft is solved by making society better, not worse.

Phew, good to hear. Here I thought it would be a hard and complex problem, with lots of unknown unknowns, difficult political compromises, a generation-spanning efforts and many potential solutions with uncertain outcomes, partially contradicting each other.

Instead, we just have to make society better. So, what's step 1?