There’s no such thing as consistent illegal money
If you know the right juggalos there is
“The average street nikka doesn’t have 10k saved up” - former Oakland street nikka
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If you know the right juggalos there is
The thing with that Freakonomics study is it's highly highly secular, it's a specific group of people on a block, in a top down structure drug trafficking network, that is like a GD sect. There's a lot of variables to account for. Wholesalers, independents, middle men, white collar traffickers, white collar retailers, Mexico based importers, transporters. The idea that every drug dealer stands on a corner with retail amounts is not accurate.
FluffyEyes
Mrs. Boss Lady
It's not. I know someone who was doing all that and he made okay money, enough to subsidize his lifestyle and take care of his mom a little bit and I told him it's a time limit on this shyt. If you're going this way regardless, make it a temporary fix. Got addicted to that fast money, stopped going to his regular job and got caught. Now he crying about how hard it is to find a job with his record. It took everything for me not to say "I told you so".
Cel 510 kid ados forever
Veteran
This isn't most former hustlers tho
This isn't a diss to u personally
But
Coli folks never been outside or to the hood so they not knowing
Most former street dudes did it for the money and banging the best looking women
Once it ran out they end up working regular jobs
Construction
Bus drivers
Ups/fed ex
Tow drivers/triple a
Where u think "reform thug" comes from lol
As long as u get out early enough and don't get a long bid
U can be straight
Iverson_64
Superstar
I'm almost positively certain that he said the same thing about White men in another post lol.
Cel 510 kid ados forever
Veteran
Nah I barely post on here my guy
White dudes don't get women that look that good unless they white
BIG articulated the whole dead end process perfectly..
"Now I'm thirteen, smoking blunts, making cream
On the drug scene, fukk a football team
Risking ruptured spleens by the age of sixteen
Hearing the coach scream ain't my lifetime dream
I mean, I want to blow up, stack my dough up
So school I didn't show up, it fukked my flow up
Mom said that I should grow up and check myself
Before I wreck myself, disrespect myself
Put the drugs on the shelf? Nah, couldn't see it
Scarface, King of New York, I want to be it
Rap was secondary, money was necessary
Until I got incarcerated, kinda scary
C74-Mark 8 set me straight
Not able to move behind the great steel gate
Time to contemplate, damn, where did I fail?
All the money I stacked was all the money for bail"
FluffyEyes
Mrs. Boss Lady
The “reformed thug“ is at MOST 10%. The other 90% are still struggling to survive or worst, still incarcerated or dead. That anecdote is only 1 of several from the men I went to school with or family members. In 2023 there’s no reason for young men to be getting in that illegal drug business. The risk is not worth it. Not to mention the family left behind when ppl get knocked and then they need commissary and for ppl to keep JPay funded. No bueno.
Cel 510 kid ados forever
Veteran
True but folks never envy hood dudes for they lifestyle
It was for the kind of black women they could fuk
The ones I knew ended up on they feet later on
Them dudes got a lot of kids
So they don't like standard jobs
Cause of child support
It's not a lifestyle to live
But some grew up in
Environment that all they knew
I knew a few financially savvy street brehs. They didn’t blow boatloads of money on hoes, vacations, gambling, or other excesses. Only one of them got caught up with the law, the other two retired to civilian life. They might be in the minority of street entrepreneurs.
