Less actually. Engels described this in the “Conditions…”, even in the conditions of purposeful and pretty obvious starvation only a minority of victims turned to crime. Especially that back then, even being unemployed or homeless or too poor to live was literally a crime, as the poor law stipulated, punished by the forced labour camp.

So really, this is the point of this survelliance system - not to prevent crime but to criminalise everyone. As old saying goes “there are no innocents, only people insufficiently interrogated”.

EDIT: wrong person, i wanted to write this to @plinky@hexbear.net

Ayn Rand birth name was Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, which probably wouldn’t sit well with the target audience of her books.

An off-duty officer (working Walmart Security)

Do cops need multiple jobs to pay rent too in US?

Not entirely, for example the same principle applies in Russian.

My russian is pretty weak but iirc date is said dd-mm-yyyy, same as polish and in russian numerals are actually easier to pronounce than polish ones.

That’s english fault though.

it cost a man his soul

I doubt such crab louse even had one to begin with

On a side note, i searched in google just from the curiosity, how nonwhite the victim was, and right below in the “related stories” i read:

“New York Reports First Polio Case In The U.S. In Nearly A Decade”

Just USA things…