Yeah my older relatives have been doing a lot of hand wringing over these news reports but none of them ever seem to take it a step further and wonder why thefts might be on the rise. Those people should just get a third job or something if their groceries keep costing more, their landlords are squeezing them for every spare cent and the utility companies that have been neglecting infrastructure for decades are passing on the costs of fines for entire towns burning to the ground to their customers.