Born a Crime

(Chris Devlin) #1

working guy.


“All right. We’ll do one-twenty.
Here’s your DVD player. It’s yours.”


“But I don’t have the one-
twenty.”


“It’s cool. You can take it now,
only instead of one-twenty you give
us one-forty when you get your
wages.”


“Okay.”
So now we’ve invested 50 rand
with the crackhead and that gets us
140 from the working guy. But
Bongani would see a way to flip it
and grow it again. Let’s say this guy
who bought the DVD player worked
at a shoe store.

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