N.B. I should say that that this ^^^^ is true, but not if you simultaneously do business in RL and SR. If you work in RL, then retailing on SR is just another (lucrative) market due to geographical arbitrage. But if you work exclusively on SR (security ideal) to distribute product, then dealing to customers in RL is like the Giant Freaking Laser of Death for you. There is an order of magnitude more risk to distribution in RL than through SR proper for obvious reasons.I don't want to prescribe a "one size fits all" philosophy here, but people should really be thinking about the big picture, what's its going to be in 5 or 10 years time. If I were a retailing in RL today, I would move my business online ASAP as a matter of urgency. Even if you were making the same dough, the risk is far lower.We are here to make risk adjusted returns, or we are fools. Would you prefer to make S1 million in six months at 50% risk of being busted, or 200,000 per year for 5 years with almost zero risk of getting busted? Your calculator will tell you the average is 1,000,000 either way, but you know those probabilities are not really the same... this is not an investment of money, but mostly your time, labor capital etc. You cannot earn if you're in prison for the next 20 years. Securing future earnings capability in a high ROI low risk environment is the key thing! Consider the opportunity cost! Any professor from Cornell or Harvard Business School would tell you the same thing. I believe that vertically integrated business strategies coupled with swarmed global distribution are the key to the highest returns and the lowest risks. Retailing heroin, although something I've never done since I dislike opiates, would probably be the most profitable thing in RL for a vendor if you had a monopoly from manufacture to distribution (ah, unlikely without seriously powerful pals). Potential margin is 15,000% or so, maybe even 30,000%, but I doubt it once your costs bear down on you. I am saying we can better than margin by five, ten, twenty times over if we follow the V model using swarming with next to no maintenance costs in comparison. And what guess, no bullet to the head, so no insurance costs either. Practical stuff!I feel like banging my head against the wall with some people I see in RL because they're taking enormous risks for no upside. People are simply not calculating the risks and doing the math. It's simple, you move to the darknet markets or you go home, that is all. That applies from the tiniest operation like a student or consumer retailing on the side to stave off loans/purchases costs to the oldest and largest retailers who currently think they're above it all. They're all going down the tube ultimately, the darknet markets will eventually eat any market share of anybody else that doesn't have an extremely direct connection to manufacture/agronomy. In fact, I also think darknet markets will lead to downward pressure on the prices of synthetics, leading to the humbling of the Cartels in S.A and other places. Drugs compete too.Economy is like a force of nature, like gravity. Eventually the most efficient capitalists usurp the existing order of things, that has been the way for hundreds of years, it ain't going to change now. It's slow, I'm not saying it's happening next year, or even within five years, but it's going to happen because there is really no other way for it not to. tldr; Get onto darknet markets exclusively and vend to anonymous consumers only, or you will eventually go under. If you do this you will become wealthy, otherwise the odds are not stacked in your favor. I like real money as opposed to hypothetical dollars if-absolutely-everything-went-according-to-plan-&-nobody-made-mistakes, don't you? "The Feudal Age" for the black market is over since February 2011, now we just watch it all play itself out over the rest of the century.