Couldn't help but notice your post. It's the only other time I've seen anyone else express similar sentiments to my own. An "acceptable" level of crime is indeed good for business. And, you all but said as much but I'll run another one by you: divorce is also good for business. An unintended consequence of the bra burners??? Probably not.
I found that out - that divorce was a business years ago. The lawyers provoke conflict to inflate their fees, the real estate people move in for the kill.
I know someone who's about to get nailed, and yes, you are right on. It's good for business even before the fact... good for the facilitators thereof, and oh so much fun too...
I see divorce as a secondary cause, a consequence of depravity and general disobedience to G_d.
An unintended consequence of the bra burners??? Probably not. Absolutely it was intended. Italian communist Antonio Gramsci proposed sexual debauchery as a way to destroy the nuclear family, which he saw as the bulwark against socialism. Break down the family and the government raises the kids.
An important cadre of Gramsci's ideological heirs in Germany were the Frankfurt School. Among them was Erich Fromm (so there's your 'bra burner' connection). Their pitch became known as "Cultural Marxism." When Hitler took over he chased those "communists and Jews" out of the country into the Roosevelt administration's waiting arms, quickly to be ensconced in the American university system.