I watched the Storyville program on BBC4 last night about the Silk Road drugs website…
Just what I was going to post in response to the theme of
..sort of develops until you say ‘hang on a minute. How the **** did I end up here?!..”
Really interesting story, the film’s called “Deep Web” and I’d recommend it to anyone. Directed by Alex Winter (aka Bill S Preston Esq). Quite touching seeing the guy floundering in some clips when he was trying to maintain the facade of a normal life and not being able to really explain exactly what he’d been up to to his friends. Definitely someone who got in over their head, very very quickly.
I can’t imagine what getting a sentence of life without the possibility of parole must be like, the guy was in his twenties and set out with a an entrepreneurial but fundamentally libertarian vision of a free trade area outside the jurisdiction of any government, ends up kingpin of the biggest drugs marketplace in human history, ordering hits on people that have crossed him, never reaping any of the financial benefits and spending the next few decades in a small room.
Back in the days when I smoked a bit of this and that, I remember finding the line, for me. Somewhere between “if we all put in we can get an ounce together, it’ll work out cheaper” and “if you get half a bar it’ll be £x”.
The day I was going to go out and buy some scales was the day I had a stern word with myself and accepted that paying retail rather than wholesale prices was a better way forward.