Crime/Plunder is the easiest path to financial success

Myself I am 'certain that you are correct about failing as a societal stratagem. It's an idea I've long thought true myself. I even recall an example of it in a book I came across in High School years ago, Golem in the Gears by Piers Anthony. Still, That books example had to do with the long game and others being aware of your actions. It ought be one of a persons main intents in crime to do it no more than necessary and for no one else to know. You need money to make money often enough in life, And once you've made some illegal plunder, It's easy enough to turn to legal plunder. Or an easy life, Easy job, Easy purpose. Though I suppose a bit of ambiguity might be seen in what the debate is about, If you're willing, I'll specify a bit. That this debate regards a single individual rather than society. Thus your point on how a society would find it difficult to function if every man was a criminal does not apply. The man in this hypothetical scenario is delighted to find that most people in the USA 'are morally upright law or conscious abiding persons. 1 For your first point, I say well said, But think there's something you miss. The rarity of intelligent crime makes it a more open market than other avenues. By that I mean I am sure that the law has plenty of stoppers put in place for dumb crime, Even clever crime. But by being aware of that, Taking a wee bit of time, Even those intelligent stoppers would 'ave a hard time stopping an intelligent person. Intelligent plans, Intelligent people are encountered less in crime I claim without evidence. Intelligent people 'I'd think generally find easier ways to succeed or be satisfied conventionally. There's also a thought I'm thinking that utterly ruthless crime too, Is less commonly expected or preventable. 2 Your second point, Right again, But again not enough. Most crime is petty, Fits in with my first thought of most criminals being unintelligent. If it's for financial gain the only crime worth doing is short term and high paying. No matter if you've got 99% odds of success, You stay in the business long enough, That 1% is likely to prick up some point. And a prick in crime can end up costing you all the blood all the years in your body, Prison and certain penalties. I'm thinking that opportunities can be made or smelt out. That in this modern world it's easy enough to cast a fishing net to cover the United States from the East to the West. Easy enough to take a plane. Easy enough to track people, Buildings, Or even a storm days before. 3 I find myself agreeing with all your points it seems, Yet not finding them enough to convincing in the argument. Your third point a concept as old as the Bible "The wicked flee though no one pursues". True enough, But this is a question of obtaining money, Not about how a person minds the cost after. It is a short term plan, That all it needs to be, And the only way one ought go about it. There is a reason I'm thinking that it's a path people often enough find seductive in life. The reason being in my title, It's easier, Quicker. It's just that most people don't have ambition enough to risk it or go against their morality. Raskolnikov. . In Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment 'could have gotten away. And he certainly acquired his ill gotten gains easy enough. Easier than if he had worked or begged, Easier than Sonia likely earned what little she did in prostitution.