Low level crack dealers in gangs face worse pay and conditions than workers in most minimum wage jobs. My friendly independent neighborhood pot dealer makes a good living. There is still a risk of being robbed etc. without any legal recourse, but I’d imagine it’s a lot lower if you aren’t selling crack in the inner city.
Status-seeking, essentially. Gang leaders are very high status in some circles, dealing drugs through gangs is a necessary part of becoming one. Of course actually becoming a gang leader is extremely unlikely, but then there aren’t many self-described rationalists who deal crack.
Yeah. They say that there’s a slim chance of becoming a successful drug dealer and making tons of money, so people see those guys and try to be like them.
For what it’s worth, I imagine that being a suburban weed dealer is an entirely different ball game. OP might want to look into that.
By that logic unemployment is impossible, therefore other factors get in the way somewhere.
People will go to great lengths to support themselves. What if they can’t get full time legal work? That’s not exactly rare. All the employment growth since 2008 has been in part time jobs rather than full time. And once they get in it could become hard to get out...
prostitution pays pretty well, if you’re attractive.
Attractive, and female. Male prostitutes do get paid a lot less. Also, stress levels and risk levels here are likely pretty high for all genders. If one is in an area where it is legal, possibly less stress and risk, but still likely to be not at all small.
If you can find out and be good at keeping track of the value of collectibles such as magic cards you can make a lot of money buying and selling them.
This seems like an area that’s already saturated with a lot of skilled people.
Running an MTGO trading bot apparently isn’t too difficult. I don’t know how much money they actually make, though. (Hopefully enough to pay the electricity it takes to run the computer...)
prostitution pays pretty well, if you’re attractive.
Dealing drugs is very lucrative but fairly risky.
If you can find out and be good at keeping track of the value of collectibles such as magic cards you can make a lot of money buying and selling them.
Low level drug dealers face far worse pay and conditions than workers in most minimum wage jobs.
Low level crack dealers in gangs face worse pay and conditions than workers in most minimum wage jobs. My friendly independent neighborhood pot dealer makes a good living. There is still a risk of being robbed etc. without any legal recourse, but I’d imagine it’s a lot lower if you aren’t selling crack in the inner city.
That leaves me with a question that they were nice enough to explicitly ask at the end of the page:
Do they answer it later in the chapter?
Status-seeking, essentially. Gang leaders are very high status in some circles, dealing drugs through gangs is a necessary part of becoming one. Of course actually becoming a gang leader is extremely unlikely, but then there aren’t many self-described rationalists who deal crack.
Yeah. They say that there’s a slim chance of becoming a successful drug dealer and making tons of money, so people see those guys and try to be like them.
For what it’s worth, I imagine that being a suburban weed dealer is an entirely different ball game. OP might want to look into that.
See, i see that question and assume the answer is probably extreme poverty and inability to make money any other way.
Get a legal job? From what I understand, minimum wage is generally a little under market wage, so it should always be possible to get work.
It even mentioned that they often work part time on a legal job. Why not only work on the legal job?
By that logic unemployment is impossible, therefore other factors get in the way somewhere.
People will go to great lengths to support themselves. What if they can’t get full time legal work? That’s not exactly rare. All the employment growth since 2008 has been in part time jobs rather than full time. And once they get in it could become hard to get out...
Attractive, and female. Male prostitutes do get paid a lot less. Also, stress levels and risk levels here are likely pretty high for all genders. If one is in an area where it is legal, possibly less stress and risk, but still likely to be not at all small.
This seems like an area that’s already saturated with a lot of skilled people.
Running an MTGO trading bot apparently isn’t too difficult. I don’t know how much money they actually make, though. (Hopefully enough to pay the electricity it takes to run the computer...)
My consort says working a dry cleaner’s is very easy and you get a lot of free time, though it is very hot.