White Collar.

Okay, so I'm re-reading J. D. Salinger's, The Catcher In The Rye--okay, okay, you caught me! I never actually made it thru the first time; but god willing, I'll read the entire novel this time. Interestingly enough, I believe originally I switched from Rye to Franny and Zooey, if I recall correctly...

Anyway, I'm reading the first few pages, and I come across this curious passage:

"Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has--I'm not kidding."

It always occured to me that--at least in the movies--the poor kids were just trying to survive, while the wealthy were always just looking for things to do. They were bored. They needed to rebel because normal behavior was too easy and too monotonous.

What's worse: the kid who robs a liquor store at 3am for a couple of hundred; or the man who robs billions from millions of stockholders? Well, at least no one got seriously injured.