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The only ex-dealer I've met was doing it because he could make $800 in an hour in semirural southern California. It's hard to convince someone making easy, ris
by nitrogen 6y ago
The only ex-dealer I've met was doing it because he could make $800 in an hour in semirural southern California. It's hard to convince someone making easy, risky money to switch to making less, hard, but sure money
- dsr_ 6y agoA government can make it harder, increase the risk, or lower the profitability. For example, if you register heroin addicts and supply them with clean heroin on a regular basis, you destroy the market for heroin. If you legalize and regulate cocaine like tobacco, you can destroy billions of dollars worth of criminal activity.
- phone8675309 6y agoThe for-profit prison industry, who use incarcerated people as labor for pennies an hour, has enough political sway in this country that I have reluctantly accepted that these reforms are essentially never going to happen in my lifetime.
- asdff 6y agoIn places like Alabama prisoners aren't always paid. Slavery still exists as a punishment in this country.