One issue is the failure of the straight-and-narrow status quo to appeal to normal people. When you can't work an entry-level or low-skilled job and afford housing in the area you live in, or when working the job you'd need is more undignified and unappealing than hustling, you're going to hustle to make things work. What came through in the video to me was desperation for dignity, to be seen as a controller of your own fate. For most of the people in the video their "legal" alternative is to be underpaid and mistreated, to have their free time totally consumed by labor and traveling to and from it, and to have nothing left to show after the basic costs of life. It's no wonder they turn to a criminal life where boldness and recklessness earn you either respect or hatred. Lower rent costs and better jobs would fix most of this issue with no recourse to the legal system.<p>On the other hand, criminal justice in the US is anything but. Voters have decided — I think correctly! — that mere theft and drug use don't warrant the kind of punitive, criminogenic long-term caging and low-grade torture that constitutes our penal system, but there is simultaneously little appetite for improving conditions or exploring alternative rehabilitation so that those going down this road can be firmly turned around or given better choices. So the current situation is that our society, given two bad options, is experimenting with accepting a somewhat elevated crime rate in the interest of reducing over-incarceration and the mass human suffering it creates.<p>Ultimately my feeling is that you pay for everything one way or another. The stolen laptop and broken window are coming out of the extra money made selling a home in an area with artificially constrained housing supply. People save on property taxes but spend more on Ubers to avoid the train full of poor and needy people who have been screwed by the same system. IMO creating a spectrum of options, rather than the constant debate between extremes, would let people narrow in more strongly on the best balance.