Off the top of my head The Wire and Startup, where these gangs try to start legitimate businesses only to screw it up. What was the best way to go legit? What was the best way to use the legit business to cover the illegitimate business? Thoughts?
They needed cash businesses. Restaurants, corner stores, phone card stores, laundromats. They had no intention of pretending to be legit, and when they tried, they kept going for projects that was way too big.
Avon and them had shyt sewed tight in season 1. Them properties were gonna skyrocket and they had the step club and maybe other joints to wash cash. If only mcnulty didn't go full autism. Once Avon got locked string was playing too many away games and was out of his depth
There are ways, theoretically, any cash businesses. But fukk that. All the wasted potential for the human race lost by people with addictive personalities? You're just making money off misery and hurting our collective lives. The other thing is, we're literally turning into a cashless society within a few years, drug addicts are going to struggle to pay with anything besides blow jobs.
So in Startup, Ronald's crew was running security for the nerds. All Ronald had to do after that was create a security company and employ all his boys. The bonus was he'd have access to all the legal weapons they could get their hands on. No worry about the cops. They'd be licensed and legit. Instead he go and abandoned his boys so he could go from being Hellboy's nikka to the company's nikka. That upgrade from field negro to house negro be destroying the community something harsh.
