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1337irr says

The dealers are actually far better off than the programmers, because dealers don't pay income tax at all.

Drug dealing looks good on the outside, not so good for the long run reality. In the first place, your clients are scumbag drug addicts. They will sell you out for a dime bag. Your competition are murderous criminals. Life expectancy isn't great. That show 'The Wire' pretty much showed the politics of drug dealing and the limited life expectancy of the players. When you have ghetto mommas breeding the replacements, it is a meta stable scenario with replacements moving up in the ranks in pretty short generational cycles.

There were some YouTube videos a few years agoabout players and money launderers in the cocaine trade. The ones they interviewed pretty much stated they were the lucky ones because everybody they knew was dead. If they got out with their lives and a prison sentence, they were lucky.

Patrick says

The dealers are actually far better off than the programmers, because dealers don't pay income tax at all.

May be not, watched news on ABC long time ago, most of the dealers stay with their mothers as they can not afford to move out let alone can not afford daily meals! The only the very top guy make money but they are very few of them in the drug enterprise. One guy says one day, they would make the decent money when the commentator asked them, while hiding for all their life!
All of them must be a bunch of losers.

I'm not recommending that life, just saying that $350K tax free is better than $350K taxed.

Link? Don't make me search the internet for "Pee Wee dies".

pee wee died today. Now you can link this as your source.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/comedian-pee-wee-herman-dead-70/

Ceffer says

Drug dealing looks good on the outside, not so good for the long run reality. In the first place, your clients are scumbag drug addicts.

You want to make money and have no compunction on how to make it?

Sell sex. Sell the most perverted weird fucking shit you can think of, because most people won't do it. CGI immersion with furries, furry dolls, hookups, bizarre inflatable sex dolls, sex toys that can't be remotely duplicated by any living thing, but you'll have to do some research, and, you'll have to be content by fucking up somebody for life.

You can sell CGI chats, being controlled by computer, with a beautiful AI generated woman, that is actually a 50 year old man, or just a machine.

That's the easiest way, but basically, you need to just turn your back on any sense of morality, to different degrees.

Here, built a private e2e communication system except it's not - sell all information to the intelligence agencies you collect. They won't pay? Fine, make it true e2e until they do. When they ask for information, ask for money. LOTS of money.

It's easy to make money, if you drastically exploit your consumers or lie to them in favor of your government.

Google, Facebook and Twitter do both. They lie to their customers about privacy, and they sell information to the intelligence agencies, and anybody else that wants to buy. They advertise their services in secret. It's not like Amazon knows what Facebook is doing until a marketer from Facebook went to Amazon - unbeknownst to all their users.

Lol, I suspect that the mainstream porn sites like Pornhub actually make money by tracking your real identity, compiling a dossier on what you view, and selling that to intelligence agencies.

Patrick says

Lol, I suspect that the mainstream porn sites like Pornhub actually make money by tracking your real identity, compiling a dossier on what you view, and selling that to intelligence agencies.

Wouldn't put it past them.

Look, who would pay money for pornography today? If you want, you can see the most fucked up shit, for no cost. I think pornography is an addiction to most people to the point they are willing to pay for more.

Personally, I've never been so interested in anything to pay for anything, including a G rated film on up. Paying for porn is so alien to me, there are so many exhibitionists and at this point, I have zero interest in that.

The only thing I think I'm interested in at this point, is information, and even THEN I have problems paying for it because I have low trust.

'welcome to the 4th dimension... this is a tesseract infinity cube..."

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/32-ideas-for-32-years?publication_id=323684&post_id=135485126&isFreemail=true

Each bottom square contains 10 more dots than the one above. This is noticeable when the dots are few (left) but not when they’re many (right). This blindspot is why you don’t care about saving $100 when buying a house but you do when buying clothes.

Patrick says

This blindspot is why you don’t care about saving $100 when buying a house but you do when buying clothes.

Oddly enough though, people will cruise around and use a "GasBuddy" type ap to save 5 cents per gallon on a 15-gallon tank.

Haha! This guy needed a light, and fast.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1646458823329320961

Something for @Patrick (life hack for Irish people):

Texas is big, but Africa is fucking huge:

https://www.kueez.com/en/show-really-world-maps

This is Russia superimposed on Africa:

Holy shit. Russia is gigantic.

Patrick says

Holy shit. Russia is gigantic.

I was trying to point out how huge Africa is.

Right, what I meant was that given that Russia is gigantic, Africa is stupendously huge.