Ive read the comments and i hear yall, but stringer still trying to better himself and sometimes other. He paying for that class, he made an investment in himself... Hell, when i learned addition, first tihing i did was come home and tell my parents what 2+2 was and my lil bro also, its only natural to be excited about learning. I dont think he was being uppety about it, i think he really wanted them to learn a lil bit cause most of them arent going to sit in a class but theyll listen to him. He couldve just changed the name and the caps without saying shit, but he wanted them to understand, didnt want them to stay entirely ignorant. His only fault was making boss moves when he wasnt no boss, but even a boss knows not to move against "Brother". Him hitting dee girl was wrong but as they say "all is fair is ho's & tricks". Going against Avon was real low considering how hurt Avon was when he got merc'd, you can tell they were like brothers, but to be fair, everybody was playing everybody
As generally unlikable as stringer is/can be with his know it all attitude, I have to admit his character is written extremely well. His motives couldn’t be more obvious as he practically wears them on his sleeve and he does at least try to approach things the entire game differently than most other guys who just use pure violence.
I love how the show Sopranos and this show taught people that criminals do seek help and they do advance themselves whether emotionally or otherwise. Tony used therapy to justify his behavior and actions, and here Striker is getting an education so he can be a better criminal. Both characters use traditional ways normal people better themselves so that they can become better and smarter criminals in their perspective worlds. They don’t go to therapy to stop committing crime, they don’t go to school to stop being in a gang, they do so to get even better
They do make money from it but the profits go towards financing the drugs they buy wholesale from overseas before it has been cut. Then cut the drugs and sell it for a much larger profit. Having a front makes it hard to tie the money to drugs.
I’ll give you an example, if you fund money into a record label and some music artists but you don’t recoup any sales ie the artist flops you’ll be at a loss. For some businesses it’s easy to waste money than it is to make money substantially and to keep you off the laws radar too
@@mrbossman6811 Ah I see, that makes sense. So either the business is funding another enterprise (like drugs) and is supplemental. Or its something designed operate with intermittent gains (like how studios only need a single hit to justify multiple flops). So the fact a business is losing money on the books is a feature
@@followingtheroe1952 The show covers this more in depth in a later scene where Freeman breaks down how the legal Copying business Stringer is running finances packages(drugs) and is also used to launder money from those profits.
Stringer Bell 🛎️ is my worst fear 😂. His character is entirely made up from “Wasted Potential”. If he played the business man as a businessman and played the game as the game he would’ve eventually made it out on top: he took down Avon and that’s when the Games Karma turned on him. but a snake 🐍 is never a wasted potential 😂
People shit on Stringer for being inexperienced with business and thinking he's smarter than he is but he was doing a lot. He was running the drug trade across a large part of the city, he was running "legitimate" businesses to launder the drug money, he was trying to bribe politicians and start a real estate company, and he was going to college in his free time. He was a very smart person, he was just trying to do way too much and he slipped up and missed some important details.
His main problem was trying to use what he learned about operating a in a legal business market with regulations/rules and trying to apply it in an illegal business environment with basically no rules. Some things may apply to both worlds(like changing the name of their inferior product) but in the end on the street you have to deal with people like Marlo and Omar who have no equal in a legal business environment.
The fact that Stringer was elite for taking community college classes, and elite even to the police hunting him, points out how desperate the conditions in Baltimore really are, and how deep the inequality really is. The real sharks with the real credentials are playing a whole different game. We see a glimpse of it with Carcetti, Levy, the Greek, and the businessmen.
3:25 have a friend who does just this to exploit the reality of unhappy customers. has 5 stores all with different names, selling the same core products. inevitably, customers may get buyers remorse and choose to boycott one location. unknowingly, they make up their own mind that Store B is better than Store A. all the while not knowing that they never really had a choice to begin with.
to be fair, a microeconomic concept like PED could be discussed to introduce macro ones like marginal propensity to consume. . .so it could very well be and introduction to macroeconomics class
String getting an A- is some subtle storytelling. I love that. Its like they're saying, "He almost gets this all the way. Almost." String's business is life and death. Almost don't cut it.
I googled Avon and Stringers age and I was surprised to find out they were only in their early to mid 30s before their organization fell apart. I always thought Stringer was like in his 40s because of how he dressed lol
I have a drug dealer friend who loves stringer bell. He also acts like he’s a genius because he’s rich, but I always tell him any idiot can sell drugs lol, stop acting like you invented the idea
I love Stringer Bell. The Great Gatsby of the show. He tried and failed but goddammit, he wanted more for himself and he went after it. Mans studied microeconomics and applied what he learned (albeit, imperfectly) to the drug trade, trying to educate his team into the process. What’s not to love?
This story is so common. So much potential in people who chose the streets, so they end up a day late and a dollar short learning basic concepts through trial and mostly error.
Never understood why he would hire corner boys to work at a print shop. Of course they don’t know how to actually work, if they did they’d have a real job
