Do you have stats to back this up, Noam Chomsky?
I've lived in NYC for 20 years and worked here for 18 years and spent 5 years living and working Chicago.
As a result, I have encountered unnumbered bums.
They are nasty or crazy or both and almost all of them have serious drug and alcohol problems.
Your romantic view of the carefree hobo is mythical nonsense, and your use of the word "corporate" as a derogatory term reveals the Marxism beneath the mythmaking.
> Your romantic view of the carefree hobo is mythical nonsense,
No, it reflects first-hand experience as a Guardian Angel. We look after homeless folk who live under bridges and we will give them what help we can, get to know them by name and, when given the opportunity, will protect them from delinquent drunken teenage thugs who are hell-bent on giving them a beating. Done that a few times, now.
> and your use of the word “corporate” as a derogatory term reveals the Marxism beneath the mythmaking.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. My use of the word “corporate” has absolutely nothing to do with Marxism.
> I’ve lived in NYC for 20 years and worked here for 18 years and spent 5 years living and working Chicago.
I know NYC and Chicago very well. Geez, all these worries you have about crazed bums causing havoc in your streets must keep you wideawake at nite, ay. Relax, mate! Take a deep breath: I can assure you that the “Bums” are not out to get you. You have much bigger, nastier and more dangerous enemies than the homeless fellow who talks to himself. We all do. Trust me.
> Do you have stats to back this up, Noam Chomsky?
I don’t need ‘em. “White Collar Crime” is an entire category of crime that generally encompasses fraud, deception and dishonesty crimes committed in a corporate environment. There isn’t really an equivalent for “bum crime” that encompasses fraud, deception and dishonesty crimes. Or perhaps you are suggesting that Bums caused Enron to collapse, for example?
I posed it as a “suspicion” and I suspect I am right. You are free to prove me wrong with stats. If there is a Great Bum Conspiracy lurking out there, I’m sure everybody needs to hear about it.
*DieHard*