mathoda.com » freakonomics http://mathoda.com the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Drug dealing is a terrible job http://mathoda.com/2006/09/drug-dealing http://mathoda.com/2006/09/drug-dealing#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:43:51 +0000 Ranjit Mathoda http://www.mathoda.com/archives/82 Drug dealers, often glamorized by entertainment media, actually have a pretty terrible job, that pays most of them $3 an hour and within 4 years gives them a 25% chance of dying. That shocking mortality rate is actually a much worse chance of dying than if they were already sitting on death row!

This lecture by Freakonomics author Steven Levitt is very informative, rather funny, and quite horrifying:

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=s_levitt

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