Quote Originally Posted by dunfiddlin View Post
by the way, if you also think that it's a trade where you can start at the top, your bosses won't be anything other than sweet charmers with vast people skills, and the customers are just falling over themselves to be courteous, honest, and undemanding!
That pretty much sums up the issue crime or not. There isn't ANY business where that is true, and dealing drugs is just a particularly stark example. It seems like the change desired was "be vastly wealthy without doing any particular work". Crime was offered up simply because it looked like a path to being wealthy without putting in much effort, or something. Frankly, I think the only alternative is inheritance, not crime.