The real meaning of theft lies with the "big boys" on Wall Street and not with the penny ante thugs and punks in the 'hood.  Chris in Paris writes:

The sense of entitlement among CEOs like Lewis simply does not register with the rest of the country. If the best thing someone can say about you is that "someone else *could* have lost even more money, it's a challenge to see how you can keep your job.

So what is the result of having been done wrong in the 'hood?   Retribution.  The eye for an eye because you have been challenged.  But on Wall Street there are people who are the "masters of the universe" who have paid millions in protection money which is called "donations" for laws to be created to protect themselves from the righteous anger of the people whose money is being stolen.

The war zone in the 'hood, which might as well be in Baghdad, because the two worlds are seperate.