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How about we do the cost of lives? Lives lost to drugs and violence. White collar crime isn't killing your loved ones.



Really? https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6521133&page=1

And that's a "visible" example. There are people who don't make the news who suffer greatly. Losing your life savings is economic death and in human society (at least today's), economic death is often tied to suicide because of how tied it is to your ability to survive / provide for your family.


No one is getting shot. But it definitely affects peoples lives.

Try to look up how financial security affects health.


If the Sackler family are ever successfully convicted of a crime it will be a white collar one. Their actions contributed to the more than half a million deaths from opioid abuse in the 2000s. There's your "drugs," as for your violence, we could start talking about the NRA lobbying to against gun death research, or, Halliburton's weapons in the early 2000s.




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