Being a drug dealer may mean putting your life on the line to try and make enough money to live your dream life. This is almost the exact opposite for the majority of drug dealers across the world. In this third chapter of Freakonomics, the book de-bunks the drug dealer myth of becoming wealthy selling drugs. Through the pyramid of the drug ring, broken down through this chapter will analyze and explain why drug dealers still live with their mom. A man by the name of Sudhir Venkatesh goes behind enemy lines for his research on explaining why drug dealers make little to no money. Sudhir was born in India and grew up in New York. He went to school in Chicago and was interested in social growth. In his experiment he joins up with a crack selling gang in Chicago to go in depth on …show more content…
Sudhir met a man named J.T. who ran a crack gang. He was soon granted access to J.T.’s gang knowledge and was allowed to research their work. Sudhir’s research didn’t truly begin until a few years later when he realized that this crack gang was actually like any other business structure. Every business has a pyramid of management. J.T. was at the top of the pyramid leading his organization by making roughly 66 dollars an hour. Below J.T. was the three officers including the enforcer who maintained the safety of the officers including J.T., next was the treasurer who acted as the accountant managing the gang’s assets and last of the three officers was the runner, who was primarily the transporter of the drugs from one place to another. The three officers averaged around three dollars an hour. Next down on the pyramid was the street level salesman (Our main character), This area had the largest employee record including up to 75 members who did the dirty work, and by dirty work I mean they risked their lives to someday make the position of becoming an officer. Why take this job you may