The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.

Steven Pinker
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The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.� In a nutshell, self-help is a term used by sociologists who study violence to describe the actions of those who use violence as a way to solve their problems. In a society where a person can travel from one place to another via a computer, they have no need for a travel agent. A traveler only needs to know how to read and write, have access to an internet connection, and have money to pay for transportation. In this way of life, it is easy for people to solve their problems.

They simply go online and find someone who has done something similar in the past or another who has gone through what they are currently going through. As a result of this ease in solving problems, the number of people going down this route has increased.

Source: The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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