I get questions and comments from people who jokingly (and in some cases for all I know they are serious) are trying to make money doing illegal jobs like selling drugs (and not being a pharmacy) or other scams.
I won’t lie to you and say that in the short term you may make money. You may more money in one day than you could in one year in some situations. The problem is that for everybody who gets into bad business deals (especially illegal ones) “just for one score” so they can get in and retire there are thousands more who get in, get in trouble and end up in jail or dead. For the people who get into the business and end up making some money they get hooked on the lifestyle and they discover that enough is never enough.
That is a bad business decision.
Folks, I get it that you want to do whatever it is to help your family survive but please think twice about anything that will compromise your integrity, put you and your loved ones in harms way and even worse, make you beholden to people that will ask you for all sorts of favors that ultimately ask you one day to go to the corner of Fifth and Fig downtown and you will get arrested and see yourself on tv and on the Internet.
Criminal celebrity is not a good thing and the days of hitting it big with a book deal abour your glamorous crime lifestyle a la Goodfellas are long gone. Rapper songs are misleading. Going to prison isn’t cool or fun and neither is getting shot. I have heard people say that in terms of risk versus reward they will take their chances.
These are the same people who end up crying when they get caught or in trouble with people that they shouldn’t have been doing business with in the first place.
Domestic law enforcement is being beefed up. Here in the city of Los Angeles alone, there are still lots of openings for police officers and people are applying. There is talk of having more security in the form of domestic military presence in the US-something I am not fond of- but that is what is going out there in terms of trying to weasel yourself out of being compliant with Federal, State and International laws.
If you are thinking of becoming a conman or conwoman just remember that in tough times like the Depression we are in, mob justice like tarring and feathering you or vigilante retribution is something that isn’t out of the picture. As the saying use to go on the tv show years ago, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”. In this case, don’t do the crime if you don’t want to be tortured by angry victims and their families.
The one exception is if you are going to try and commit crimes or atrocities on a grand scale. If you succeed with that, you generally get made into a king or queen in some countries. That is a tough gig to do in the U.S.
Take the high road people. It will add years to your life.
April 16 2009
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