> I can't think how realistically the average joe is committing 3 felonies per year.
Someone who smokes weed daily in a place where it's illegal could easily commit multiple crimes a day just for drug possession and consumption, for example.
> I can't think how realistically the average joe is committing 3 felonies per year.
Someone who smokes weed daily in a place where it's illegal could easily commit multiple crimes a day just for drug possession and consumption, for example.
Only 16% of Americans marijuana, according to Gallup. If you exclude people who are in states where it's legal/decriminalized, that'd probably be even lower. Needless to say, even if all 16% of them are criminals, that's far from the median person committing 3 felonies. Moreover the weed example isn't not even applicable to thesis of the book or the commenter that invoked it, which is that the US has so many regulations that nobody can hope to comply with them.
If 1/6 of Americans are potential repeat federal felons based on just one activity, I find it highly dubious that the other 5/6 can't be as well in the other hundreds of activities we undertake each day. Using your parents' Netflix/ Disney+/ etc password can technically be prosecuted under CFAA[1], for example. That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country.
[1]: https://decider.com/2022/01/04/is-it-federal-crime-to-share-...
> In 2016, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sharing online passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Wikipedia on the case in question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal
>A few months after leaving Korn/Ferry, Nosal solicited three Korn/Ferry employees to help him start a competing executive search business. Before leaving the company, the employees downloaded a large volume of "highly confidential and proprietary" data from Korn/Ferry's computers, including source lists, names, and contact information for executives.
Extending that ruling to netflix password sharing is a stretch.
Moreover you can't say "I can think of one activity that many americans do is a felony", and then apply induction on it to claim that the other activities americans due surely contain felonies.
>That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country.
That's only true if you assume the population of weed smoker and netfilx watchers don't intersect, which is... doubtful.
> If you exclude people who are in states where it's legal/decriminalized
There is no state where cannabis derivatives are federally legal.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-II/part-1308