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I'd rather have someone maintain existing socioeconomic order than a total breakdown like, e.g. Haiti where random gangs control the city.

False choice. There are other and better options than these two.

Also if you were on the very bottom of the socioeconomic order, maintaining it would take on a different meaning.

safest place for that is in a communist state, where crime is a monopoly of the Party.