The Benefits of Living in a Safe City

There are a number of reasons why every wealthy country has a social safety net. As countries get richer, like Brazil and India and China, they turn their attention to more social welfare. Partly it's because some of the investment in some of the redistribution is public good. And those need to be factored in as elements of individual wealth. But there is debate among social scientists as to whether it is inequality that drives these other social goods such as low crime or education.