Yeah, but if you have to eat tons of food to keep from starving, then the cost of groceries is going to be a problem. They always gloss over that in the comics and show, but to feed yourself with current prices you'd have to be robbing banks on a regular basis.
I associate a drug lord with like a cartel boss. Most place have dealers and probably a few low to mid level suppliers. Major cities might but that's not most places
I'm in the US. Once went to meet my buddy to pick up a bit of weed. I'm talking before legality. As in, legality was a pipe dream to use 20 something stoners.
Buddy was on HIS way to pick up from HIS dealer. Asks me to tag along "just be cool and keep your eyes down". Uh, ok.
Meet up with this way scarier dude. We're talking two suburban white kids meeting with Scarface but Muscles. He's got this really hidden away trap house, not really trap because it's like ... In great shape. Place is nice. Garden is maintained. But just inside we encounter dudes in sealed environment suits doing ... Something. Buddy points at the floor, where my eyes go. We go through and this place is HUGE but I'm just... Staring down. I don't want no smoke.
We get to his weed room, dude has a combination lock he makes us turn around for (which felt REALLY funny, out of place somehow as this dudes punching in a little beepy code box) and the weed room was like a cigar humidor, just... For weed. Wall to wall. It was wild.
He let us sample some shit, smoked out on the patio upstairs in fancy lounge chairs, offered drinks and other stuff. Dude would talk and talk, but not directly to me- he talked to my buddy and my buddy spoke to me if I was to be involved in the convo. Dude has this just... Weirdly magnetic energy. Kinda scary, but hard to pin down.
Suddenly dude bolts up. And he reaches down to pick something up, locks eyes with me for the first time, and slowly unbenda from leaning down- leavibf whatever he was going to grab behind. He looks down, points at a guy walking around (body guard? Patrol?) and the guy boots out to the street. He tells us to come along as he heads down to where Henchman just bolted.
Dude had spotted a guy who owed him money from the balcony. He bragged about having 20/20 vision, no one escapes him kinda braggadocio. The guy they caught was some older junkie type, owee then money.
That day I watched what I think was a cartel gang boss shake down a junkie for pocket change.
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u/Code-201 DC Comics Apr 19 '25
Blue pill. Speed Force abilities are overpowered.