Fears that the third world will steal rich-world output and jobs are based on the old fallacy that an increase in one country's output must be at the expense of another's.
Billy has a scam of his own going: he steals rich people's dogs, and then his plausible friend Hans Christopher Walkenn) delivers the poor pooches back to their tearful owners, claiming to have found them wandering round, and collects the cash reward.
The improbable yet weirdly persuasive plot of his bestselling novel The Woman in White derived from the dastardly yet brilliant scheme of his villain, Count Fosco, to steal a rich young woman's inheritance.
With respect to their ethnic spirit, they valued courage, honesty and diligence, the hungry did not beg for food, the poor did not steal, the rich did not abuse the poor, martial arts were highly regarded, and dying of illness was considered a disgrace, while dying in battle was seen as honorable (Hangxiudongzhu and Shangmajie 2002b).
Is it OK to steal from rich people?
My prognosis is that the money will be stolen, the rich will get richer, the poor will remain poor, and Afghanistan will remain a beggar nation.
"Income differences create an incentive for those relatively poor to steal from richer households," the authors explain.
While the parasites are like Robin Hood, stealing from rich trees to feed the forest poor, they can spoil individual trees for lumber.
(The trip is fine picaresque: He steals a rich drunk's shoes and turns an amiable truck driver stone silent by asking for a handout).
"They trust us more," said Alamin Belhaj, the council member and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood here, arguing that many Libyans fear that the revolution would be "stolen" by rich, Westernized and often expatriate liberals on the council.
This guy thinks stealing from rich people isn't wrong, but the law still thinks it is.
