>Entrepreneurship is all about breaking the rules, making your own way and making things happen.
Braking the rules is ok, braking the laws is not. So if I understand, you would consider the people, that are in the drug business, as entrepreneurs? Illegal activities are highly profitable, precisely because most people, will not participate in them, and this distorts the market.
Have you been on the subway when a peddler, beggar, dance troupe comes through with a loud spiel?
It's more like the subway version of spam.
Clearly lots of people are demanding spam, right?
He's providing a service that a few people* are demanding, and most people find annoying.
Plus evading sales tax, creating litter, reducing rent from the legit concessionnaire, etc. If that's OK, why stop there, why shouldn't I set up a candy stand in the movie theater?
*the ones who take up one seat for each butt-cheek
I've lived in New York, and it's just a fact of life on the subway, kind of like the way that it stinks on hot summer days. I'd rather that the police and the court system spend their resources on real crimes because I can always ignore these guys and the panhandlers while I read my book in peace.
And that is why it's tolerated to a certain threshold. Thankfully (for us and him) we're still below the threshold. But if more people start selling candy on the subway you can bet you'd be happy they did something about it. And this dude would be making significantly less money.
Having commuted on the subway at one point in my life, yes. That has happened to me hundreds of times. Usually I ignored them, other times I wanted some candy and purchased it.
well, as Emerson said, good men must not obey laws too well (probably talking about slavery). In this case, I think there are valid reasons for the law. Just because something is a fact of life doesn't mean it's desirable.
Agree with that. I was living there a while ago and they are more than annoying. The statement if you don't spend a dollar with me you either don't have it or are a hater already demonstrates his mindset - i.e. that people are obliged to buy his crap and that he takes it personal if they don't.
Nop, the subway version of spam is someone selling you Viagra even if you are a 10 year old girl; someone selling you fake lottery tickets and a guy from Nigeria that needs your credit card information in order to give you 10 millions bucks.
Just because the market is distorted doesn't mean they aren't entrepreneurs. We all know some laws are written/influenced by industry to protect industry. Maybe your parents told you never to break the law but, laws are written by men. They are fallible and sometimes people need to push the limits or break laws to make things change.
Braking the rules is ok, braking the laws is not. So if I understand, you would consider the people, that are in the drug business, as entrepreneurs? Illegal activities are highly profitable, precisely because most people, will not participate in them, and this distorts the market.