But they could use the income stream from the sustainable vegetable farm and vegan B&B to cover their meth expenses indefinitely. That's clearly the superior option and therefore must have been what they were planning.

So remember, kids, everyone with a substance abuse problem is just out to steal from you to feed their habit.

You could give them all the money & help in the world, but they'll never be more than a junkie who wants to steal from you.

So it's totally okay to not address the systemic problems that lead to people becoming addicts and it's okay to not care about them as people because thy're just plain bad.

Also, we shouldn't invest any money into hardening vital infrastructure against future attacks because terrorists wouldn't bother exploiting weaknesses a group of stupid drug addicts stumbled upon..

I wasn’t being dismissive.

They got arrested and confessed that their master plan was to cause power outages so they could commit some robberies.

Then why bother to mention the vegetable farm at all if not to be dismissive of the concept that if addicts get money, they'll just spend it on drugs?

I get that this particular group of addicts wanted to steal money to buy drugs, but why mock the idea that some addicts might use money to find a way to get off drugs?

I’d be much more open minded if they were doing something legal to get money to get off drugs, instead of trying to destroy the power grid to rob places…it shows a certain lack of self control and awareness which leads me to the shocking conclusion they just wanted money for more drugs.

Crypto farming may have been involed.

Cost. They're only encased in concrete in big cities, where they are dressed up to look like fake buildings to dissuade the curious.

Daddy capitalism doesn't like spending money on infrastructure that doesn't directly generate profits.