Yeah this is WAYY the fuck off topic from Freeones but I just ran across an article on my term paper writing on criminals.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
If **** dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their *******? (Revisited)
A reminder that it's not easy to make $10,000/mo
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"The crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage."
"Notwithstanding the leadership's rhetoric about the ****** nature of the business, the gang's wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America.
"A foot soldier (lowest level guy) has plenty in common with a McDonald's burger flipper or a Wal-Mart shelf stocker. In fact, most of (the gang leader) J.T's foot solders also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings.
"J.T's hourly wage was $66. His (front line-KK) three officers, meanwhile, each took home $700/mo, which works out to about $7/hour. And the many foot solders (under the three officers-KK) earned just $3.30/hour, less than the minimum wage.
"So the answer to the original question - if **** dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their *******? - is that, except for the top cats, they don't make much money. They had no choice but to live with their *******.
For every big earner, there were hundreds more just scraping along. The top 120 in the Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money."
They conclude:
"So, if crack dealing is the most dangerous job in America, and if the salary is only $3.30 an hour, why on earth would anyone take such a job?
Well, for the same reason that a pretty Wisconsin **** girl moves to Hollywood. For the same reason that a high-school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m.to lift weights. They all want to succeed in an extremely competitive field in which, if you reach the top, you are paid a fortune (to say nothing of the attendant glory and power.) - Freakonomics, p. 103-4.
Their chances are strikingly similar to ours, aren't they? Right along with those hopes and dreams of reaching the top with the fortune and attendant glory and power. :fight:
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
If **** dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their *******? (Revisited)
A reminder that it's not easy to make $10,000/mo
..."The crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage."
"Notwithstanding the leadership's rhetoric about the ****** nature of the business, the gang's wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America.
"A foot soldier (lowest level guy) has plenty in common with a McDonald's burger flipper or a Wal-Mart shelf stocker. In fact, most of (the gang leader) J.T's foot solders also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings.
"J.T's hourly wage was $66. His (front line-KK) three officers, meanwhile, each took home $700/mo, which works out to about $7/hour. And the many foot solders (under the three officers-KK) earned just $3.30/hour, less than the minimum wage.
"So the answer to the original question - if **** dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their *******? - is that, except for the top cats, they don't make much money. They had no choice but to live with their *******.
For every big earner, there were hundreds more just scraping along. The top 120 in the Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money."
They conclude:
"So, if crack dealing is the most dangerous job in America, and if the salary is only $3.30 an hour, why on earth would anyone take such a job?
Well, for the same reason that a pretty Wisconsin **** girl moves to Hollywood. For the same reason that a high-school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m.to lift weights. They all want to succeed in an extremely competitive field in which, if you reach the top, you are paid a fortune (to say nothing of the attendant glory and power.) - Freakonomics, p. 103-4.
Their chances are strikingly similar to ours, aren't they? Right along with those hopes and dreams of reaching the top with the fortune and attendant glory and power. :fight:
