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by stouset 1001 days ago
> but they will just steal more

Yes, classically, thieves just scale up their operations tenfold when their profit per theft goes down. This is why iPhone theft has skyrocketed in the past decade, to the point where the general public is anxious to ever wield such a device in public for fear of being immediately snatched.

Oh, wait, that’s not what happened at all.