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The article does not mention the words "street crime". Can this title be changed to the original title.

(HN title when I posted this comment is "White-collar crime costs society 20x as much as street crime").

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> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.




Point 33 compared to point 35


They are not comparing the same form of costs. Point 33 is the cost to US as a nation, which involve everything from the wages and building that support the legal system, prisons, and IP loss from things like foreign economic espionage.

Point 35 is only the losses that victims of property crimes has (excluding arson).

If we use the same metric in both cases the losses from victims of IP theft would be exactly zero, and property crimes would be infinitive larger in comparison.




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