> While a very rich person never bothers to ever consider laws as they can easily buy their way out of nearly all of them thousands of times over.
In reality, rich people have lower actual crime rates than poor people. Compliance with the law is as much a financial rounding error as fines. The police in rich neighborhoods have easier jobs. Your typical rich person isn’t going around making a nuisance of himself. Even John DuPont kept his behavior on his own property.
Is it really a lower crime rate or that less are reported against them? If so it could be due to their crimes being more white collar and complex, or because they can buy silence/settlement.
It really is lower. Not just from basic crime reports, but other ways of measuring like population surveys of victims. Nonscientifically, my feeling is that the median rates of finable crimes are about the same (~0) but all the people that can't help but go around and rack up infractions are usually bad at holding down a job, too, so they're less often rich, unless they're a successful misfit. Like, Marco Rubio comes to mind, he got a lot of speeding tickets. And two guys I know who are somewhat successful startup founders seem to have expressed the notion that getting pulled over is something that you expect to happen a lot, and I can't imagine them enjoying life in middle management.
In reality, rich people have lower actual crime rates than poor people. Compliance with the law is as much a financial rounding error as fines. The police in rich neighborhoods have easier jobs. Your typical rich person isn’t going around making a nuisance of himself. Even John DuPont kept his behavior on his own property.