So by that logic, my choice of not-moving to Atlanta, Gary, or any other economically-disadvantaged area contributes to those places' continued slide into a lawless hellhole too, right?
The main thing you're doing to cause a slide into a "lawless hellhole" is continuing to make pointed statements with no evidence in order to elucidate your world view that you have no responsibility whatsoever for abandoning impoverished communities. You do have a responsibility, even if you really don't want it or think you should have it. It's a civic responsibility that everyone in a democracy has. And it directly benefits you a lot of the time, which is what I find so ironic about this position.
You are trying to perpetuate ignorance and selfishness, which does indeed contribute to a "lawless hellhole", not that I or anyone else has claimed such is the state of things, but the hyperbole sure helps your obviously misguided and uninformed argument. I recommend you stop fearing your culpability, and accept that anyone who isn't helping is indeed making the situation worse. Collecting wealth at higher social levels, deepening social and financial inequality, willfully segregating communities and ignoring their problems, yes, all of this makes things worse.
If you reply again, please make it with some kind of evidence or other remark that isn't inflammatory or puerile. Trolls are boring.
So you're literally re-stating that it is in some part my fault, with different words - "You do have a responsibility, even if you really don't want it...".
Because I choose to not shunt what money I may or may not have towards Atlanta, or Gary, I'm deepening 'social and financial inequality' or whatever your babble is. So my question for you is, where does it stop? At what level of removedness can I, in your hilarious and impractical worldview, stop having to feel guilty for any success I may have gained?
If it's not the country, perhaps the continent? Do I still need to have some vestigial guilt over not sending money to the far-flung reaches of Canada? Am I supposed to lay awake nights, beating my chest over inequality in the favelas and how just maybe, if I'd sent half my paycheck to a random orphan (which orphan though?), it would've fixed all the things?
This breaks the HN guidelines. If you find yourself carried away enough to abandon civility in your comments here, please stop for a while.