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[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Someone didn’t watch the money laundering episodes of Breaking Bad

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Yeah, just depositing the money into your account is surprisingly sloppy.

Vending machine business, that's the way to go.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Or American Dad

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Impressive scam! Simple, and they got €1 mil out of it before being discovered. If they were smart, which I will assume they weren't, they could have that money in an offshore account and couldn't be taken back by authorities. They'd maybe do some time or probation, then they could comfortably fuck off and live low key in some tropical third world country for the rest of their days if they budgeted well.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Need more than just a million to retire comfortably. Though, I guess if you did it on the cheap in a less developed country, it might be possible.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That truly depends on what you mean by "comfortably". You can very easily survive the rest of your life "comfortably" on $1 million. Unless your definition of "comfort" includes a bunch of bullshit that you don't actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you've grown accustomed to it.

$1M is plenty.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you want to own a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc, $1M won’t cut it. If it was, I would have retired years ago.

[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

You are wrong, but that's okay.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc

See, that's your problem right there.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A 105" TV, a pool, a guest house, boat, new phones model every year, latest tech etc. How else do you live comfortably? /s

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

That's the issue though. They believe that is the only way to live, and that is the way they live, so that is the right way to live, so they will oppose anything that will infringe on their living that exact way.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe if by “developed” you mean capitalistic.