Midnight Marauder
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Be that as it may, by strict definition you are right. I just don't happen to count illegal activity as "industrious" and "self-supporting," strictly. I count it as nefarious cheating, that anyone can do. It takes no special talent, no education, no real hard work. Therefore the money made is stolen, not earned.legality is nothing more than a matter of status. This can be changed. I disagree with your opinon. My evidence is the nature of the beer industry before, during and after prohibition.
I bootlegged beer myself, as a youngster. It's a rite of passage here where I'm from. And still goes on. Because NM and OK have 3.2 beer, we here in Texas have the 6 point. I made boo-coo bucks all through jr. high and HS bootlegging Texas beer to NM and OK on the weekends.
It wasn't industrious, wasn't self-supporting, it was nefarious cheating that anyone who knows these backroads, knows all the tendencies of every LE officer in the area, and who has a fast car couldn't do. ('69 Charger, by the way.)