<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jun 9, 2020, at 1:19 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 9, 2020 12:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Darin Sunley <dsunley@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Also, "crazy" isn't a behavioral model, it's merely an implicit confession that their behavior confuses you and you don't know how to model their behavior…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">OK Darin, I will certainly admit I don’t understand how to model the behavior of driving a $300k Rolls to loot a department store. Can you make sense of that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Looters may imagine they are stealing from the rich, but in fact they are stealing from the poor. The insurance premiums will go up on all businesses anywhere near where rioting took place. This increases the prices of everything, which hits the poor the hardest. Since their local stores are burned out and my not be rebuilt, the poor now need to travel a greater distance to do their trading. Looters are the opposite of Robin Hood: they steal from the poor and give to themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Note the comments made by the mayor of Chicago:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">"I've been on calls and text messages with people all day who fought hard to bring economic development to areas of the city, only to see the Walgreens, the CVS, the grocery store, everything vanish in an eye blink. It's going to take a Herculean effort on the part of all of us to convince businesses not to disappear, to come back. We're prepared to fight that fight."</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">"I haven't seen shit like this before. The number of places all over the South and West sides in particular that have been hit today has just been off the charts. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of locations. Big stores, small stores, strip malls, many corner places, it is all over the city."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">The mayor did have an uplifting comment on the local residents form a volunteer guard, hoping to protect what is left. This is important considering the obvious new challenge: the remaining businesses are all they have left.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">“The new guards are unarmed and solely in place to monitor activity on commercial corridors and notify the Chicago Police Department if any illegal activity occurs. None of the security guards have policing powers, but are another set of eyes and ears to support efforts to deter looters. All security officers will wear visible identification.” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, 31 May 2020</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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--></style><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You're presuming those who loot in general are making a political statement and have a genuine political philosophy behind it. Why wouldn't many of these case seem to be merely crimes of opportunity? The logic might be more like: There's stuff there easy for me to grab, so why not grab it? If I don't grab, someone else will (if I'm really thinking that far ahead).</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One time I was near a riot -- an anti-police one at that or one inspired by an off duty cop killing two outside a bar -- it was clear that those who did the looting, a few I knew, really cared much more about getting free stuff and just having some excitement.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Finally, while these particular looters drove off in a very expensive ride, my guess is they're not typical for looters. Certainly, the aforementioned kids I knew who looted weren't driving around in ultra-high end SUVs.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>