Vivian said:
Drug dealers make shitloads with little effort.
wrong
many dealers make next to nothing and likely below minimum wage once rates are factored in. Shit I won't get into details but it's pretty sad actually, I had a quasi-long conversation with a street dealer I had just grabbed from while I was visiting somewhere in canada. He sold those shitty little bags on the strip, and wouldn't sell us at a discount, even for like 10 bags (just bags, nothing in these bags, as I'm sure is presumed

). It turned into a conversation about how he can't do that because he'll be fuct if he doesn't come back with the proper cash, and that if he ever tried to just buy his own product to move on the strip (main strip in montreal that you'd picture me at haha, I won't name it but I'm sure it can be guessed lol), he'd be lucky to just get his ass beaten and not worse.
Not all drug dealers make shitloads, fuck, not even all traffickers make much. If you think any person who sees and works with big loads is just filthy rich, you're wrong. However, in other scenarios, like a kid selling coke in the suburbs, the profits are fucking ridiculous. Coke bought in the city and brought to the suburbs has the most insane return on investment, so yeah, obviously gigantic profits are out there but to think that drug dealers are so homogenous as to be either profitable or not is just retarded. There's dealers who make less than minimum wage and dealers that've been some of the richest people in the world.
The bottom line is that drugs are a black market, but it's still a market. And it's a fucking big one. Like any market, there's people who make dick and people who make tons of money, it's not really that different from a normal industry/market.