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by mcguire 858 days ago
Want to know something weird?

A convenience store or liquor store is much more likely to be robbed than a bank.

2 comments

That isn’t weird at all. A residential home is also more likely to be robbed than Fort Knox. It goes back to the required preparedness of the robbers.

Either way, I wasn’t the one who picked the example. Seth didn’t ask “should a liquor store employee be payed more than a bank teller”. Which wouldn’t be a good example either, as we’d be comparing too many different axis.

Devil’s advocate: they’re both clerks and the liquor store is more dangerous, so yes they should be paid more
Not really, banks are well known to have protections such that you are likely to be caught (most of which I don't know - and those who do know are not talking). It is also well known that you don't actually get much money.

There are convenience stores that still don't have cameras. Liquor stores have liquor - which is probably what you want not the money anyway (money can buy liquor, but you have to go two places now)