[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don’t know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    1·
    7 days ago

    I think you should research a topic in Slovenia specifically more deeply.

    No, you should back up your assertions with data. Assuming what you’re saying is true, though, let’s try this:

    If you have a few kids social support in slovenia is comparable to minimal wage. […] Would you work if you would get the same money if you did not?

    Then the question becomes: Why is the money they’d get if they worked minimum wage? That’s your problem right there.

    And with our prisons full, lots of crime was reduced to fines. So criminals in those communities were never punished.

    Yeah that sounds like a problem. Nothing to do with social welfare though.

    And allow yourself to put words like “dirty Gypsie” in my mounth.

    I didn’t put them in your mouth; I put them in the mouth of wherever you’re getting your information. You seem to be well-meaning, but the stereotypes you’re parroting (which, again, show up everywhere, so this isn’t something unique about Slovenia) do come from the kind of people who would be mad at dirty Gypsies for stealing their tax money.

    • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Those are very related problems. We should also solve those problems. I agree. But they do not exist in vacuum.

      We are all in favor of higher minimum wage. But in our country we screwed up. We increased social support way too much compared to minimal wage. Those two number should be balanced do not you agree? You can do it in two ways the other is to increase minimal wage. And minimal wage in Slovenia is very close to average wage.

      I am not saying we should remove social support and become USA.

      Slovenia is 2nd or 1st (depends on a year) in Gini index so we have the smallest inequality in the whole world. Do not you think issues you most commonly see imported from USA (with huge inequality) are different in country like that? If we created some imbalances that incentivised isolated communities to turn to crime, are we not allowed to fix those imbalances? Or will we be called racists in doing that?