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Crime rates in Venezuela decline.

In 2015, the South American country had a homicide rate of 90 people per 100,000 thousand inhabitants, according to the Venezuelan Observatory for Violence. That rate went down by nearly 10% last year— though Venezuela remains one of the most violent countries in the world.

The non-profit, which aggregates the data from morgues and media reports, partly attributes this decrease to the reduction in muggings — because there is nothing to steal.

As many Venezuelans struggle to pay for basics like food, medicine, or clothes, there are fewer cars or luxury items that criminals can take from them. And most people barely use cash anymore because of soaring inflation.

Shoemaker Yordin Ruiz told The Washington Post: "If they steal your wallet, there's nothing in it."

Bank vaults are also mostly empty, the observatory's report said. Even if criminals were to steal cash from there, they would not be able to transport the mounds of bills it would take to get a substantial amount of money.

Essentially, crime rates are down in Venezuela because everyone is so poor there's nothing worth stealing. Also, for humour purposes, we may introduce this quote:

""A pistol used to cost one of these bills," Dog said as he crumbled up a 10 bolivar bill. "Now, this is nothing."

Another gangster, "El Negrito," who leads a gang called Crazy Boys, has found it increasingly hard to support his wife and daughter with assaults. Firing a bullet is a luxury now, he said.

"If you empty your clip, you're shooting off $15," he told the AP. "You lose your pistol or the police take it and you're throwing away $800.""

Yes, that's right, criminals are complaining about how they can't afford bullets.

Perhaps socialists can effectively implement gun control, after all!

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

Yeah, that is pretty crazy. The country is so poor, crime literally doesn't pay. There is just something demented about this whole situation, it actually reminds me of actual jokes made by comedians. It just seems that the world is just so absurd these days.

 

[CurtisLemay]

At some point, the only business in Venezuela will be revolution.

 

[Arch Dornan]

That bad huh.

Wonder that would make for a livestreamer or someone there who subsists off internet money?

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

That bad huh.

Wonder that would make for a livestreamer or someone there who subsists off internet money?

They might be doing better than everyone else over all, since they don't depend upon their own nation's economy to support themselves.

 

[Arch Dornan]

They might be doing better than everyone else over all, since they don't depend upon their own nation's economy to support themselves.

I feel so yeah assuming internet maintenance isn't that bad then a small donation through the internet is worth quite a lot to live frugally unless even the basic needs like food and water can't be bought then it's really bad.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

This reminds me of the trailer for The Heavy of Team Fortress 2.

"It costs 400000 dollar to fire this weapon, for 12 seconds."
- The Heavy

 

[CarlManvers2019]

You know, it’s beginning to sound like those Cyberpunk Dystopia’s are better, at the very least you’ll be employed even if wages are poor and the food is all cheap artificial stuff made in a lab and there’s actually industry and people to steal from

 

[CarlManvers2019]

They might be doing better than everyone else over all, since they don't depend upon their own nation's economy to support themselves.

At this rate, they’ll be making use of an entirely different currency or using the whole barter system as a substitute, only even that would be hard to accomplish without much resources that they can use

How many people in Venezuela are still supporting Far-Left Policies at this point?

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

At this rate, they’ll be making use of an entirely different currency or using the whole barter system as a substitute, only even that would be hard to accomplish without much resources that they can use

Aren't they already doing that by trading Runescape money for dollars and cents?

How many people in Venezuela are still supporting Far-Left Policies at this point?

No one. They are all too busy trying to survive the week.

 

[Arch Dornan]

Aren't they already doing that by trading Runescape money for dollars and cents?

Oh that I heard about that one. Sounds like sufficient motivation to be a gold farmer or account farmer.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

No one. They are all too busy trying to survive the week.

I take it Maduro somehow coming out with relief goods will only result in them using it while cursing him and finding that it barely lasts and it doesn’t exactly come on a consistent basis

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

I take it Maduro somehow coming out with relief goods will only result in them using it while cursing him and finding that it barely lasts and it doesn’t exactly come on a consistent basis

Hah! Maduro ordered foreign relief goods burned at the border.

 

[Arch Dornan]

Hah! Maduro ordered foreign relief goods burned at the border.

I remember that what a damn waste.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

I remember that what a damn waste.

The worst thing is, Maduro will likely get away with everything he did, rather than hanging in front of his palace from a rope made out of his own entrails.

 

[Arch Dornan]

The worst thing is, Maduro will likely get away with everything he did, rather than hanging in front of his palace from a rope made out of his own entrails.

Looks like it yeah much like other past dictators that did live up to old age to leave someone else to take the reigns and face the music.

 

[ShieldWife]

It’s unfortunate that the people of Venezuela are in such desperate straits. I do, however, think that Venezuela would be a better example of the efficacy of socialism if there weren’t huge sanctions on them.

 

[ShadowsOfParadox]

...you mean the sanctions present because of human rights violations?

 

[Big Steve]

Hah! Maduro ordered foreign relief goods burned at the border.

IIRC later investigation showed it was more likely a misthrown Molotov from anti-Maduro protestors who actually torched the aid supplies?

 

[Cherico]

at this point a civil war would literally be an improvement for most people.