[logfromblammo]

If the rules of the game seem rigged against you, there is a great incentive to either stop playing or to cheat. Some people don't seem to realize that a gigantic portion of everybody's wealth in developed nations is the ability to go out in public without fearing for the loss of your life, liberty, or property.

When you intentionally cultivate a class of people with little to lose and much to gain by brutal and violent action practically on your own doorstep, you are very likely to be hoist by your own petard. If I were a billionaire, I would be quite certain to conspicuously make myself an obvious asset to the whole community, particularly with respect to the folks that might be thinking of me as they rescue mostly-edible food from garbage containers. Public relations are important, if you wish to be a man that is not an island unto himself.