"Angel non-investing"

Yes, regular lottery is not unethical at all. Instant lottery when you scratch a ticket however is as addictive as slot machines. It works on similar principles and people literally cant control themselves sometimes. Instant gratification, so the subject keeps pushing the button until it comes or he runs out of money.

Building churches, then renting them out to charismatic cult-like preachers who can sucker parishioners into funding insanely high rents.

Child "modeling". Needs no explanation.

Trailer parks for shitskins.

Getting DXM shipped from China and reselling it on the darknet markets.

How are trailer parks unethical? Child modelling and DXM sound illegal somewhat. Church scam fits description.

Running a trashy trailerpark like I had envisioned would involve being a slumlord. Have the put their trailer down as deposit and hope they stop paying rent. When they do, rent it out until it gets torn up, then scrap it, and do it again. I once lived in one of these when I worked in the oil field. It was a complete dump and the owner had three thugs going around picking up rent every 10th.

DXM sale may or may not be illegal, I'm not sure. Modeling is a gray area and generally up for debate in court, but highly exploitative.

Thanks for the clarification. I would also include porn into my list. Legal, profitable yet to far of the grey line for me.

DXM is an interesting drug because it's sold OTC in the united states but i'm sure if the feds wanted could pin some charge on you. You might be able to evade the Analogue Drug Act because DXM is scheduled but you might get something weird like "practicing without a license". Legality is questionable, probably hard to enforce.

I was thinking that if it was illegal it would be on the importation part. But it would have to be that way to make a profit, since if I had to extract the shit from cough medicine myself, it couldn't possibly be cheaper.

(I have also thought about selling stuff like (pseudo)ephedrine and other precursors that aren't easily purchased in bulk by the degenerates who use it. But not only is that obviously illegal, but also, in general, I don't know if I could sleep at night piddling around with drugs that hard.)

There's a very large market for (meth)amphetamine precursors. Even if your morals would let you, you would be competing with cartels, gangs, and dealing with who knows. Not really worth it.

Ah yeah almost any drug is illegal to import in bulk. I was thinking once it got stateside.

The business model is predicated on people not paying in time though. While I think people should be responsible and use their wits, it definitely is 'predatory' in nature.

you could look to replicate the grameen bank version of microcredit on a small scale if you already have liquid capital