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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
You may be right. It's kind of like the WAR ON DRUGS... as long as it is economically FEASIBLE, people WILL find a way around
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One of my friends - in fact, the man who taught me how to build computers - was a medic in Vietnam. He is black, and when he came back from Vietnam it was a disaster. He had a lot of mental problems from what he saw (He was a medic with the US Marines in Vietnam), was part of the US military which was looked down at directly after Vietnam, and he was black. He had problems, couldn't find work, his wife left him, took his child with her, and then to add injury to insult they expected him to pay child support. At some point he just said "fuck this" and went underground, working for the same gas station for thirty years.
Looking back at it, the entire story is amazing. He went thirty years without a driver's license, without owning a house, without ever having been on someone's lease. He worked under the table at the gas station, and then did side jobs building computers (back before you could buy a computer).