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It's not weird. Desperate people do desperate things, so too little money can lead to compromised morals as can too much. Do you really not see that?
In some cases yes, but I don’t see that here. Compromises morals out of desperation (to me, anyway) manifest more along the lines of stealing food to feed your family or wage theft perhaps.
That's a really self-destructive argument seeing as how easily it can be reused to justify overpolicing in impoverished areas.
You're basically proclaiming "Poor people commit more crimes, and that's just the natural order of things!"
Maybe think about what you're saying before you say it.
https://www.northwestcareercollege.edu/blog/the-relationship-between-poverty-and-crime/
Tl;dr: Poor people commit more crime
It's the natural order of things, but that doesn't mean its acceptable or should be the norm. I think its a very grounded argument to say that reducing poverty by improving social safety nets and ensuring that the lowest paying jobs can actually support someone would then decrease crime.
People in impoverished areas have also successfully reduced crime rates by using community-based initiatives. See Baltimore, for instance.
"Committing crimes" isn't some inherent quality of being poor, so writing people a pass for screwing others over just because that person was poor is an asinine take.
Especially if you're gonna try to argue that disproportionally policing poorer areas is an injustice with no evident/rational basis.