I appreciate this is HN so the main thread of conversation is going to naturally tend towards security and tech. How to protect your stuff with cameras and GPS trackers and what not.
Is such blatant parcel theft not indiciative of a greater societal illness? Not simply poverty and drug abuse.
I find myself trying to imagine why I’d drive through suburbs with a partner in crime and nab the odd parcel from a porch along the way. I could be looking to fence something to pay for the next high, or I could be poor as hell and looking to make ends meet. Or, maybe I might just think that the person I’m stealing from is wealthy enough to deal without it and I simply need whatever it is more than they do?
I wonder, because there’s a lot you can assume about someone living in a pleasant suburb, ordering lots of Amazon packages. The likely colour of their skin, their money, maybe even their politics. And we like to use attributes like those to decide whether or not someone deserves something.
I’ve no idea, but I find it really difficult to explore this without trying to understand why it happens.
Pretty much been a thing since people have large enough societal groups (larger than Dunbar's number), that some anonymity is allowed. We just get to share these events via our high tech electronic networks and everyone gets to see it.
Is such blatant parcel theft not indiciative of a greater societal illness? Not simply poverty and drug abuse.
I find myself trying to imagine why I’d drive through suburbs with a partner in crime and nab the odd parcel from a porch along the way. I could be looking to fence something to pay for the next high, or I could be poor as hell and looking to make ends meet. Or, maybe I might just think that the person I’m stealing from is wealthy enough to deal without it and I simply need whatever it is more than they do?
I wonder, because there’s a lot you can assume about someone living in a pleasant suburb, ordering lots of Amazon packages. The likely colour of their skin, their money, maybe even their politics. And we like to use attributes like those to decide whether or not someone deserves something.
I’ve no idea, but I find it really difficult to explore this without trying to understand why it happens.