Unless everyone has a bike.
Think about it. No need to steal if it’s easy as fuck to obtain.
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sirdorius@programming.dev 1 year ago
- Will be yours for an average of 1.2 days in a major city before it gets stolen
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
LongStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Bikes aren’t stolen to ride. They’re stolen to sell for drugs.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is not the best argument. You could sell literally anything for drugs.
If you wanted to tackle drug selling, the following works better:
a) helping homeless people to get a home, b) unemployed people to get a job w/ livable wage, c) and having safe drugs made by hospitals under strict controls, and used by addicts in controlled environments like hospitals.
The last one especially is crucial, however paradoxical it seems. It’s because then they don’t need to buy from other addicts or the sellers (who will be very dangerous), and don’t overdose, and with the extra money, can pay eg. rent, groceries.
The “just kick off from drugs” doesn’t work - if you ever have had an addiction, you know that it’s hard. It only gets easier to kick off if other bad factors in life are removed. Only then is kicking off easier.
Now, let’s wonder about cars…
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Sold to who?
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only if you have the bicycle equivalent of a Ferrari and don’t lock it. Same as cars really.