Odds on Dirty Money
Crime pays in dollars and death!
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You know what’s funny? The idea that illegal money comes with a higher chance of success, even moderate success, than legal.
Of the whole population of drug dealers, the majority make less than minimum wage. There are a few who do tremendously well and, of those few, very few continue to do well for a long time - due to the violent nature and high risks of that game.
Statistically speaking, it’s alright for making money, not so much for wealth. You may make more money than you were previously making in the short term, but seeing as it increases your chances of death and or incarceration (two states wherein you scarcely can generate any wealth), across time you’re probs earning less. Especially, when you consider the difficulties in an around getting credit, and on the property/stock market. Being too liquid isn’t grand - especially at recent rates of inflation.
Best strategy is to make a lot, in good speed, and do something sensible with it. Skim of a good amount of upside, mitigate against the otherwise inevitable downside, and live your life.
Tldr: when doing illegal work, the risk factor starts very high and only gets higher with success, the odds of which are very low. If you don’t do very good, very quickly, you sink. Once you’ve sunk, you’re in less of a position to play the legal game, and fall into a nasty loop, wherein difficulties finding a job, as a consequence of doing illegal work, forces you to do more illegal work.
That’s the odd thing about life, good things beget more good things and bad things beget bad. Momentum more than anything is what will make or break you. The good and bad thing is that noones momentum cannot be reveresed.
On the flip side, the alternative has its dangers also. The majority of legal workers also make close to no money, and are actually in debt. They take less risk, but often completely forgo the upside, unless you’re an engineer, designer, or working in law/finance.
You don’t often risk incarceration or a biological death, depending on what you do. But you do risk a psychological one, which is arguably just as bad. Tbh, madness is at the end of either road, but I think that often the rat race will have you mad earlier.
While there are more opportunities across class, country, and ethnicity’s now than ever before, there’s also a foggy perspective on that which muddles things. It muddles things because the more visible “wealth” is, the more we want and believe that we should have it sooner. But the more time we spend looking at it, and dwelling on it, the less time we have to get it.
Ironically it feels like there are more and more opportunities to make fast money, but we have less and less time to capitalise on it, how sad is that? It’s like someone made a wish with a monkey paw.
Anyways, sorry to conflate wealth with success. I’m not betraying a fixation of my own. I’m just talking around our general ambitions with money.
*I say “wealth” because people will see you eat a nice dinner, go on holiday, or wear some trainers and assume your wealthy - it’s nonsense. But it’s part of that visibility I mentioned.
Hope that made you think
- O