Greed. the leading cause of crime.
it is not poverty as most people perceive. if you look at it deeper, greed actually caused most of the criminal activities. Pure, raw human greed. the aspirations to be something more, to have more and control more.
greed has caused the rich to want more. after the rich have achieved the highest, they would not want to let it go. thus the rich will proudly step on each other so no one will be higher than them. and they will aspire more to be higher that nobody could reach them. and how else would they do that but by destroying all who are below them. take all the wealth of those too weak to oppose them. thus the rich gets richer and the poor are left hungry and dying.
now driven bu the will to survive, the poor finds a way to satisfy their hunger. they work, they strive and greed comes in. they want more. thus the poor finds more ways to live easier. they do everything humanly possible regardless of the law of man and God. and where else would they steal the wealth but from the people who trampled them.
the rich Stael through politics and loopholes within the law. the poor pillages with blades within the streets. but what chance does the poor have against the towering might of corruption, destructive corporations and influential power?
as Noli de Castro so well put it, "human greed... the race to go beyond previous in come records to the point of overextending capabilities of human institutions cased the near-meltdown of the major financial markets in the world."
but as I see it, it already collapsed the foundation of human living to the point that it is a necessity if one wishes to survive.
