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by gravitycop 6332 days ago
Crack dealers are entrepreneurs.

Most crack dealers work in large organizations with only one or a few entrepreneurs at the top. Does working at Microsoft or Google make one an entrepreneur?

As the article said:

Felipe Dias is one of the convicts Catherine plans to redirect into a legitimate enterprise.

He was once a lieutenant of the Mexican Mafia gang and made tens of thousands of dollars a month importing drugs and selling firearms and stolen cars.

A lieutenant is not a founder.

1 comments

It is certainly harder to become a lieutenant of a drug cartel then becoming an executive at a corporation.
What's your metric? Are you basing that on direct experience with both, or some kind of statistics?
Direct Experience.
Can you elaborate? Unfortunately for some reason there aren't that many firsthand accounts of what is required to become a lieutenant in a drug cartel. If you can find time to write about your experiences, it would be a substantial contribution to the public discourse.