The slow realisation that there is vulnerability and exploitation in the street criminal economy continues.https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/935025399091908608 …
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Factor in the risks and associated costs of the drugs economy, including violence, arrests, indebtedness, imprisonment, future prospects, and the wage premium may not look as attractive. >
If you haven't already, do read 'why do drug dealers live with their moms' in Freakonomics, for a fully costed assessment (from the US)
Key point: those dealing at street level accept the risks/costs and minimal wage premium in hope they may one day be further up the food chain - but v few make it.
Yes, and the dealers either sell to the already vulnerable or to the well to do - 2 major criminal parties here
If YP is barely old enough to work on a checkout and if violence, threats and coercion are used to make YP scan cans of beans, then perhaps it is grooming...
Well put.
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