Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyZ
You are blowing this so out of proportion. By your reasoning, all kids should drop out of highschool and become drug dealers, because they will acquire enough business knowledge to become the next CEO of Sprint.

Nice life.
You are applying the same reasoning as freevibe, those anti-drug commercials, all your reasoning against it is based on your hatred of wiggers and stereotypes and wiggers. You state I'm the one blowing it out of proportion when really, that incredulous statement is blowing everything I said out of proportion.

No where did I even imply that kids should drop out of school and sell drugs. No where did I imply you'll become a CEO off selling drugs. All I basically said is there are some marketable skills you learn from dealing drugs. Just like a girl selling cookies, or some boy selling lemonade in his neighborhood. What I said has nothing to do with wiggers, more against this comment you made:

"Bullshit man. When you're young, you have the whole world before you. It doesn't matter where you come from, you can find work somewhere. I can't stand people with that defeatist attitude. When I was 15 I started washing dishes in a tiny little restaurant making $7/h. Sure you probably make money hand over fist peddling to your buddies, but at least I know what a hard day's work is like.
If you think those kids selling bags in the corner are making pump over fist, you are kidding yourself. Reality is the kid is a drug dealers bitch, like his sales clerk. Unlike what you think no one with the right mind would put up with that bullshit unless they really want to be in the game, I don't care how glorified hip-hop makes it out to be because that's glorified bullshit.

The guy who's really making money are the ones above them and likewise it's incremental. You have to consider a couple factors. They do not work an hourly wage, they work base on profit. Therefore the only way they'll make money is to sell a lot and sell it fast. It isn't easy.

In reality small-time dealers are making less than what you make working as a dishwasher and the work is different but equally as grueling. There's no doubt some are making less than $5 an hour. They have to organize their time around delivery, they have to find new customers, they have to talk to people, they have to negotiate with people. Dealing with all the BS with dealing drugs, it is work because of you don't do that, you aren't going to maintain a profitable flow. Replace marijuana with computer, or cell phone and the same concept applies. Likewise if they are successful, they learned something about entrepeneurship. If they failed, they didn't not learn the concepts properly.

I also believe it's a free world. You can dress what you want, be what you want as long as you understand and accept the consequences.

I met some obnoxious wiggers in my lifetime that I couldn't stand, infact a bunch of friends and I ran from because one decided to punch one friend, smack another over the head with a bottle for no reason and we were outnumbered 2-1. Just one story. I have plenty of experience around crazy wiggerness. I also met some incredibly chill ones who don't hate, are more quiet, but like to express their style. I simply think you shouldn't be hating and judge each person individually on their actions. Stereotypes are just that, stereotypes. I don't what they care about what they rap in hip-hop, it's music, it's suppose to set you free, it isn't reality, it isn't fact, it's expression.