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Please avoid generic, off-topic screeds.

When you're angry at a group of people it helps to think of whether this issue happens in other places and if not then consider that it might be a systemic problem and that you should be angrier at the systems that led to this problem.

My bike got stolen recently. I was pretty bummed out about it. But I think whoever stole it was probably more happy to get it than I am sad to lose it. The total happiness in the world increased. So, whatever.

The person who stole your bike probably sold it for $10. It’ll cost you way more to purchase the same or similar bike.

The happy person in the story is the person buying stolen bikes (or parts thereof).

dheera lost $5000 of their property and the nut I responded to is telling dheera to have more empathy for the thief. There is something seriously wrong with you when you've lost the ability to empathize with the victims of crime but retained the ability to empathize with the perpetrators.

The guys running around SF smashing cars every day would do a lot better if the legit economy were working better for more people.

Please get a sense of scale.

edit: anyway, who we should really be worrying about is that lady who cut me off in the grocery store parking lot.

Or that bastard on the internet that used your and you're improperly!

I do have a sense of scale, one person cost me $0, another cost me $5000 in lost belongings and camera equipment. Guess who matters more to me.

I'm not one of those rich EA/Battery/Modernist people who has throwaway money in FTX. SBF doesn't exist in my world.

Are you trying to say that the legal system should only focus on your individual problems?

Here's a tip: "the world" is not the same thing as "your world"

My problems are the same ones that the entire middle class in the Bay Area faces.

I'm saying they should at list take a shit about something that's affecting the largest chunk of the population, instead of just dropping cases and not even going out to catch the serial thieves. Even more so, the people running around punching elderly Asian women. In fact, go after those first. My problem is a distant second.

Instead, they focus on the world of a few individuals who didn't really need their money anyway.

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