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I have a friend who saved $15,000 in 1 year selling cars and low quality marijuana (he made $1000/month from it).

He traveled to 50+ countries and slept outside everywhere except poor countries where it was cheap to get a bed.

When he returned to the US, he sold cars and was homeless. Literally he slept outside but still worked out and ate well. When he got a car, he still slept outside.

He recently just made $60,000 driving for Lyft/Uber in 6 months and saved $30,000 (assuming a lot went to taxes).

He then moved and slept in hus car for 1+ month while having 30k and perfect credit, and still driving. Now he's taken a month off to pursue creative and side projects.

If you don't have a family, then anything is possible.

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It takes someone special to live like a drug dealing homeless person. Most people are trying to avoid that lifestyle at all costs. Obviously if you have zero bills, saving money is easy. But be realistic.

It was more a comment on discipline. And selling small amounts of weed is hardly equated with "drug dealing".

Again, the point was the will to do it not necessarily how he did it.

Selling drugs is drug dealing.

How is it possible to make $60,000 driving for Lyft/Uber in 6 months? Can someone do a rundown on the numbers for this?

Can you really earn $120k/yr driving?

He might have found a lot of new weed customers.

i could believe it if he slept in his car and drove 18h/7d for 6 months.

nobody would do that for more than a few months but i'm sure it's possible if you're really dedicated to raising some money in an unsustainable way.

He worked 80 hours a week. In SF, you can make up to $3000 in one week driving for Lyft.

I don't understand how you're glossing over the fact that your buddy was homeless for 1+ years or however long it was.

Even if you don't have a family, people don't want to sleep outside.

I'm not saying I would do it and I don't think he was homeless more than 2 or 3 months.

If we're going to open the possibilities to criminal behavior, we should include even more lucrative activities like counterfeiting and loan sharking.

Yes because selling $50 worth of weed is equal to a federal crime like counterfeiting.

You seem like someone who has little life experience.

Probably a lot more than you. How do you get from $1000/month to $50? Or did you just make the whole thing up? You can get 5 years in the federal pen for dealing trivial amounts of pot if you manage to piss off the government.

My point was running a criminal enterprise isn't really an acceptable option for most people.

Is this more satire?

Well that was depressing.

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