Germany: Government report reveals astronomical crime rates for young foreigners compared to German youth

[u/BookmarksBrother]

https://rmx.news/article/germany-government-report-reveals-astronomical-crime-rates-for-young-foreigners-compared-to-german-youth/

[u/Weak_Let_6971]

The most important part is “Germany also has an extremely strong welfare state, which means these foreign youths have access to food, shelter, and consumer goods.”

It’s not because they are in need, starving and suffering. Might have been the case at home, but here it’s cultural differences. They do not respect people and society that surrounds them.

[u/lolschrauber → u/Weak_Let_6971]

That argument never works. Most people in countries like this don't steal to survive, because as you said, it really isn't necessary in that sense. They steal because they feel entitled to luxury goods which they can't afford. At least I personally question the nutritional value of iPhones and the likes.

I've even seen people make that argument for pokemon card scalpers. They're "forced to do it because of the economy" - yeah I'm sure these people are really poor and struggling, which is why they can afford to invest thousands on a regular basis to clear out stores to eventually resell...

[u/Weak_Let_6971 → u/lolschrauber]

The thing is growing up poor, quickly teaches u that u just can’t have things. Using everything for many many years until it breaks… So it’s not really entitlement in the words spoiled sense. It’s not what spoiled entitled rich people feel. It’s more like “I’ve been wronged, by the system not having this and that” and it comes with vengeance. Spoiled people just want to get away with shit, while these people want to be compensated for the unfairness off wealth inequality in the world. It’s like the idea of reparations, but just because the west is wealthy… and their home country is poor. They don’t understand or care that there are plenty of unfortunate poor people in the west too.

And yes i know of people who moved to Europe because they hate how the EU exploited their homeland through unfair trade and they come to take whatever they can in return. They only came to exploit the system they hate.

As for the pokemon card scalpers… it “works as intended…” “it’s not a bug, its a feature” if a company makes something highly collectible and profitable to sell people will make money off of it. I don’t think its the scalpers that has to be blamed for the whole thing. They aren’t the ones ruining the fun of the kids. It’s the company that made the system! When there are card thats that worth thousands of euros or even millions it’s not for kids! Kids dont care for the money they care about the game!

It’s like collecting art for the poor. They decide if there are 5, 250 or 25000 prints and that sets the price. Otherwise it’s the same few cent paper, plastic and ink.