Jobs or lack of them impact ethical behavior big time.

Serena, the following quotation from your analysis "hit home" with your humble servant here:  "Market forces since post-industrialization and the lack of stable workforce along with cheaper labor markets abroad and the idea of self-pleasures and gain have created impoverished neighborhoods.'
Yes, the economic environment shapes our ethical behavior, for better of for worse.  Or as Karl Marx put it, "The means of production (jobs) determines social class (behaviors)."  Marx was a good sociologist, although your humble servant here disagrees with his ideas about political dictatorships.  Think Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" here.  At the bottom, first is security (jobs).  In the middle comes social relationships and their social ethics, which jobs or the lack of jobs impacts big time.  At the top comes "self-actualization," full development of our humanity, which includes ethical behavior.  This does not mean being poor automatically makes you evil, immoral, or unethical.  It only means it makes it harder to avoid negative behaviors.  We saw this in our recent three-month stay in Florida.  The unemployment in our area at 14% led to desperation among the jobless, and the result was a rise in "crime" as people stole to "make ends meet."  It is sad to think this occurs in this country.  We can do better - ethically as a nation.  Dr. Rux