Being able to start their own business would be the necessary incentive to leave crime behind according to 22 percent of respondents, while 20 percent mentioned having a formal job.
Its simple math: fed minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Even at a full 40/hrs a week (which doesn’t happen since they want to avoid providing healthcare), that’s $290/wk, or $1160/month, and that’s before taxes. Working your ass off, with a likely amount of physical labor, under a middle management chode on a power trip that probably has the IQ of a walnut but is good at kissing the asses of people above them while making your life miserable.
Now say you sell eighths of weed for $45, and you’re buying ounces at $200 a piece. There’s 8 eighths to an ounce, that’d $25 as a cost per eighth, leaving $20 in profit. To gross $2k/month, you’d have to sell 100 eighths, or roughly 3 eighths a day. Or, you can sell 10 eighths a day, 5 days a week, and gross $4k/month all profit. And this assumes you’re either driving around are sitting on your couch.
Yeah, no shit that math maths in favor of hanging out at home selling weed all day. And that’s just weed. There’s much higher profit in other substances. Now that said, there’s much more risk in selling weed, be it the law or getting robbed/assaulted/etc. But for some with few options, you can easily see how much more attractive that is than working a dead end retail job just to keep the lights on.
I’ve got a coworker now and have had multiple others where this job was their first job in life. They just sold drugs before and, for some, after.
All of them didn’t want to sell drugs but it was easy money for their skill set and it paid for their use. From what they said it was a pretty annoying job.
When I was 19 - 21 I sold drugs in the club scene. Early 90s. I did it Thursday - Sunday.
I made £1k per week minimum.
It was not fun but … I couldn’t make surviving money with the shitty jobs I had (I’d been working since I was 15) and this was easy. It was 90s clubs, they practically sold themselves.
Its simple math: fed minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Even at a full 40/hrs a week (which doesn’t happen since they want to avoid providing healthcare), that’s $290/wk, or $1160/month, and that’s before taxes. Working your ass off, with a likely amount of physical labor, under a middle management chode on a power trip that probably has the IQ of a walnut but is good at kissing the asses of people above them while making your life miserable.
Now say you sell eighths of weed for $45, and you’re buying ounces at $200 a piece. There’s 8 eighths to an ounce, that’d $25 as a cost per eighth, leaving $20 in profit. To gross $2k/month, you’d have to sell 100 eighths, or roughly 3 eighths a day. Or, you can sell 10 eighths a day, 5 days a week, and gross $4k/month all profit. And this assumes you’re either driving around are sitting on your couch.
Yeah, no shit that math maths in favor of hanging out at home selling weed all day. And that’s just weed. There’s much higher profit in other substances. Now that said, there’s much more risk in selling weed, be it the law or getting robbed/assaulted/etc. But for some with few options, you can easily see how much more attractive that is than working a dead end retail job just to keep the lights on.
I’ve got a coworker now and have had multiple others where this job was their first job in life. They just sold drugs before and, for some, after.
All of them didn’t want to sell drugs but it was easy money for their skill set and it paid for their use. From what they said it was a pretty annoying job.
All you wrote rings true for me.
When I was 19 - 21 I sold drugs in the club scene. Early 90s. I did it Thursday - Sunday. I made £1k per week minimum.
It was not fun but … I couldn’t make surviving money with the shitty jobs I had (I’d been working since I was 15) and this was easy. It was 90s clubs, they practically sold themselves.
Decent money but lots of stress.
This guy maths the math…
This article is about Brazil.
According to the same article, 42% of drug dealers did not complete elementary school. Not quite the same situation as what it’s like in the US.
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