And also, can I remind you, you haven't made an argument why criminality would be a bad choice.
Let's break it down. Criminality obviously carries risks:
1) You won't be able to get certain types of high-social-status jobs anymore (but you probably will still be able to do low-status jobs, like working class stuff). Unless you redeem yourself to society, perhaps.
2) Going to prison is inherently a risky endeavour because you don't know what sort of people you're going to come across. You could, potentially, get raped/stabbed/whatever. But I reckon that if you just stay out of the way of obvious troublemakers, but you also stand up for yourself when people try and step on you, then you should be okay.
But, I would say it also carries rewards. I think just the experience of going to prison would be very educational. It would make you realise where your limits are. Unless you get into trouble, how do you know where your limits lie?
No - r/K selection theory does NOT say that one strategy is better than the other ('r', which is quantity, or 'K', which is quality). It just says they are DIFFERENT strategies.
I would argue, though, that 'r' is better. I reckon 'r' is the ideal that we would all like to pursue, if we got the opportunity. But obviously it is only the strongest members of the species that will get to pursue 'r'. People who aren't as strong need to make their living doing something where they're not competing with people stronger than them - i.e., they turn to intellectual tasks. And those people usually focus on 'K'. I'm not just guessing this - educated people do have less children: washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/education-level-inversely-related-to-childbearing/
But, of course, even educated people will pursue 'r' if they get the chance to. Steve Jobs had 4 kids, Bill Gates had 3. Other educated/brainy people who make it big also have lots of kids.
So I think 'r' is the ideal. I guess educated people don't pursue 'r' as much as non-educated people do, because educated people are under more stress. They're taxing their brains more than non-educated people. If they had lots of kids, that would add more mental stress (and financial stress). Non-educated people (those who manage to have kids) are under less mental stress. They manage to make a living through means that aren't that mentally taxing. Maybe it's manual work, maybe it's crime, maybe it's managing some of the educated people. Because they are more physically imposing than the educated people, they get by in life just by being bigger and tougher. They are less buttoned-up people. So they are more impulsive. And have more kids.