a Conservative that hasn’t been robbed at gunpoint yet,
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/l-a-s-arms-race-of-the-affluent/
The security business is experiencing a rebound after a couple of diminished years because of the pandemic. Some firms had their on-site security guards sent home for health and social distancing reasons. Not anymore. In Beverly Hills, the craving for additional security dates to the riot that followed an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in May 2020, with unprecedented looting along Rodeo Drive that left broken boutique windows beneath beloved luxury brands: Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Michael Kors, MCM, Ermenegildo Zegna. Last March, a $500,000 Richard Mille watch was stolen at gunpoint from a diner at the Il Pastaio restaurant. The Dec. 1 home-invasion robbery and shooting death of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, 81, in her Trousdale Estates home, only accelerated the arms race among the affluent.
I for one love it when Liberal fantasy is burned away by the flames of reality 
Living in Africa tends to do that as well.
Ostentatious displays of outrageous wealth tends to attract those that want to help reduce the imbalance between those who have laboured for their stipend and those that have others labour for them.
A friend of mine and his wife were planning a vacation to the Philippines a few years back. He is wise to the ways of the world from having spent a good bit of time in less developed countries, she on the otherhand is pretty naive.
Before leaving he told her to leave her wedding ring at home ($12,000). She asked why, was he worried about it getting stolen?
He said no, he was worried about her finger getting cut off in the process of it being stolen.
I know a man who witnessed that happen in Bogota. He was idly looking out of his hotel window when he focused on an elegant hand protruding from a car window. A scooter riding, machete wielding moment later the ring and most of the hand were gone.