Symbolic of America. Old people with morality tossed aside as the new normal is to steal at every opportunity. You know: steal elections, shoplift, car jacking, looting, steal millions from the COVID relief fund, steal with Ponzi schemes like Bankman Fried, steal whatever is around you.
America is the land of opportunity to STEAL! Steal everything you can get your hands on. Why? Because nobody believes in God or in a power higher than themselves to be accountable to. There is only your EGO, WILL, and PASSIONS. So live a hedonistic life unimpeded by basic morality. Live for your own tawdry, little self... because tomorrow you die. That’s secular thought, the default position of people’s thinking. Everything is short term...
2 Thessalonians 2.