Reply #16: After Watts, after the 'uprising' in the early '90s, [View All]

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everybody said "insurance!"

Guess what the response was: Bankruptcy.

Those with insurance saw their rates rise. Many smaller businesses didn't have any. And many that could stay saw no reason to.

The TVs and jewelry that's been taken were still good when stolen; odds are, they'd still have been good.

They'll be some sort of fed/state/city program to help small businesses. But part of the aid will, no doubt, be used to help replace some looted stuff.

Stealing food and water to survive ... it's theft, but it's ok theft. Stealing jewelry, not.

But what sometimes happens is that people steal food and water they *don't* need--either they need none, or much less than they take. Then they sell it at inflated prices. Then you have two forms of moral superiority rolled up into one loathsome little soul.