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I understand your point, but man it's not right to compare creating facebook to selling drugs. You wanna teach our kids something good? Don't give them that create facebook crap. Tell them to be REAL heroes the way dope dealers are seen. Let them be firemen, lawyers (not always heroes) teachers. Compare something like that to dope dealing.
No risk of jail, benefits, you become a role model to your community and people.
I agree with what you are saying. I just wish we would aspire to do more.
Zuckerburg did it. Not to mention Jack Dorsey did it with Twitter, and Warren Buffett started his fortune by running a paper route, taking over other people's route and consolidating them all under his control. He was making $1500 a week as a kid, BACK THEN. Then he invested in the railroads and blew up. These should be the people we look up to as our financial role models.
Not the fairy tale rappers with the rented Bugatti, costume jewelry and extended rap sheet telling us how to have success, in a business with a broken business model. Drug dealers have to build clientel. Which means that they have to tell everyone that they are doing something illegal. And evntually, with the way things are these days(snitchin, robbers, no honor among thieves, Crimestoppers hotline, satellites zooming down from space in real time, cameras everywhere) someone or something is gonna tell on you. The chances of success are low.
But yet I could go into ANY hood in America and find 10 drug dealers in the first 20 mins. But in that same neighborhood I probably wouldnt find 2 business owners if I searched all day. Why is that? Its because if we start businesses we will be competing against their businesses, and they lose money. So they keep us fighting and killing each other over thousands so that they can make billions.
But I think we are saying the same thing.
As for a real life example
Let's take a look at NT's own Ricky409
Our NT brother went to school for 5 or 6 years and got an education. Now he just got a great paying job pulling in(I know its more that this ricky, but for example's sakes we will say) lets just say 70K a year. Which breaks down to about $1460 a week. Its not facebook money, but good money nevertheless. And without taking penitentary chances. And he can use that money to invest in something that will make him even more money. Legally.
Ok. Im done ranting NT brothers.
Sorry for the wall of txt guys
Cliffs:
Wanna make money, copy those that are good at it like Warren Buffett not rappers
Wanna get drugs out the neighborhood? Stop selling them
Start businesses. Make REAL money
ricky409 did it right. Kudos. Follow his example
Cliffs:
Wanna make money, copy those that are good at it like Warren Buffett not rappers
Wanna get drugs out the neighborhood? Stop selling them
Start businesses. Make REAL money
ricky409 did it right. Kudos. Follow his example
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