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05-13-2020, 12:51 PM
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Best cash businesses
OK. So you've been laid off or maybe your business is closed or maybe the company that hired you is out of business.
Your unemployment, if you are able to get it, will only last so long.
You've run out of savings. So now what?
What is the best way to generate cash?
During prohibition people turned to making and selling bootleg whisky.
Selling drugs is always popular, but dangerous.
Aside from those two businesses what other jobs can people do to make cash?
Asking for a friend.
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I haven't reached that point. Just trying to plan ahead.
Also, prostitution comes to mind. Bootlegging is probably the least distasteful, in fact, it's kind of honorable in an old fashioned way.
I don't like drug dealers, generally speaking.
I have nothing against prostitutes. I feel bad for most of them.
Last edited by highernote; 05-13-2020 at 01:00 PM.
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05-13-2020, 01:08 PM
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Invest In A High Dollar Printer A Good Scanner... Some AquaNet Hair Spray.
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05-13-2020, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by highernote
OK. So you've been laid off or maybe your business is closed or maybe the company that hired you is out of business.
Your unemployment, if you are able to get it, will only last so long.
You've run out of savings. So now what?
What is the best way to generate cash?
During prohibition people turned to making and selling bootleg whisky.
Selling drugs is always popular, but dangerous.
Aside from those two businesses what other jobs can people do to make cash?
Asking for a friend.
EDIT:
I haven't reached that point. Just trying to plan ahead.
Also, prostitution comes to mind. Bootlegging is probably the least distasteful, in fact, it's kind of honorable in an old fashioned way.
I don't like drug dealers, generally speaking.
I have nothing against prostitutes. I feel bad for most of them.
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i rent out daily parking spaces in my house. its been pretty slow for the past few months but i am still getting about 5 or 6 cars a night.
in the good days i could get 20 cars. my places is about a half a mile away from Boston College. i would shuttle people back and forth from the campus for their sporting events. i got lots of land on my property. needless to say, the corona has been very bad for business.
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05-13-2020, 01:11 PM
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Besides the two obvious ones, drug dealing and prostitution? Become a politician.
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05-13-2020, 01:28 PM
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Hooking or pimping.
Depending on your "resume!"
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05-13-2020, 02:41 PM
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It's only me and my son, in a pretty big house...and it looks like the colleges might be opening up again in the fall. I've been noticing that many of my friends are complaining about not having played any poker for months...and I am envisioning two fully-occupied poker tables in my living room, perhaps running a couple of nights a week. I could apply a $500 daily rake per table...and no one would call it excessive. I'd give them all the food and drink that they want...and still approach a 6-figure annual income...not counting the money that I figure to win by participating in the games myself.
Desperate times demand creativity.
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05-13-2020, 03:02 PM
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Funeral Homes.
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05-13-2020, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Greyfox
Funeral Homes.
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Right, funeral homes and cemeteries: People are dying to get in them. Ba-dee-bump!
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05-13-2020, 03:36 PM
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Lemonade stand. Old school.
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05-13-2020, 05:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
Hooking or pimping.
Depending on your "resume!"
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I forgot about pimping. That's worse than drug dealing. Or is it? If you own a cat house where it's legal, I guess that's pimping. If your sex workers are there voluntarily and you pay them well and treat them well, then maybe it's not as bad as a drug dealer?
Then again, it depends on what kind of drugs are being dealt. Selling marijuana on the black market is not as bad as selling crack, meth, or fentanyl.
The only thing bad about selling marijuana on the black market is that you don't pay taxes, but then again neither do bootleggers. Like I said, there is something honorable in an old-fashion way about bootlegging. So maybe it should be the same with black market marijuana sales?
Grey areas.
In any case, I have ruled out drug dealing, prostitution, and pimping as a side-hustle. I don't know how to make moonshine, but I'd be willing to learn.
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05-13-2020, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by OntheRail
Invest In A High Dollar Printer A Good Scanner... Some AquaNet Hair Spray.
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I don't understand?
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05-13-2020, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Greyfox
Funeral Homes.
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That requires learning the business or buying the business. Too much of a learning curve for most people and too much capital for most people.
Drug dealing and prostitution are startup businesses that can be done nearly nothing. Problem is, I personally would not do either one.
Even bootlegging costs money to build a still. Then there are supplies and distribution expense.
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05-13-2020, 05:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
It's only me and my son, in a pretty big house...and it looks like the colleges might be opening up again in the fall. I've been noticing that many of my friends are complaining about not having played any poker for months...and I am envisioning two fully-occupied poker tables in my living room, perhaps running a couple of nights a week. I could apply a $500 daily rake per table...and no one would call it excessive. I'd give them all the food and drink that they want...and still approach a 6-figure annual income...not counting the money that I figure to win by participating in the games myself.
Desperate times demand creativity.
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How much is the buy-in? Is there a minimum ante?
How many people at a table?
Taking a rake makes it illegal, right?
What if you just charged $500 for food and drink, and rental for your home? That's probably the same as taking a rake in the eyes of the feds, right?
There were 4 lawyers who played poker on the commuter train home from NYC to Connecticut everyday. One day they were arrested for gambling. The prosecution lost the case because it was considered a private game and no one was taking a commission.
There is nothing illegal about playing poker at a private party, but making money from running a poker game is a different story -- but only if you get caught.
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05-13-2020, 06:07 PM
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Sell COVID-19 test kits. Sell hand sanitizer. Run a horse racing message board.
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05-13-2020, 11:06 PM
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Invest In A High Dollar Printer A Good Scanner... Some AquaNet Hair Spray
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Quote:
Originally Posted by highernote
I don't understand?
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“a full-scale counterfeit currency manufacturing plant” ...
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...t14-story.html
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