Yeah the process of starting a business and going through a calendar year will radicalize anyone. All the red tape and the state, municipal and federal taxes at the end of the year. Infuriating and demoralizing.

I was growing weed in college and loved it so after graduation I doubled down and built it into a cool little boutique business. But the state I was in legalized cannabis shortly thereafter and if you didn’t have a million dollars in capital you couldn’t go legal, so I went full black. Did that for a long while and felt a sense of pride in not bending the knee or contributing to The State’s insanity.