I realized I was good at selling in high school. I started with a paper clip every day and by lunch had traded enough to buy lunch. Grew up dirt poor so if I failed I was hungry. I got so good at it people came to me for advance trades (hey can you find me X?). I’m in sales to this day and very successful. Broke the poverty cycle because high school taught me how to survive.
I started an acorn black market. Every day during recess, I would go around and collect acorns and somehow convinced a kid to give me candy in exchange for acorns. After that, I traded more and it spiraled
@@FlyTrag 1. Second graders are dumb 2. I set up a sweat shop during recess and had like twenty kids cracking open acorns. I would take the orange parts from inside the acorns, add water, and mash them up. I told people it was a magical paste that would make them the most good looking or something (I don’t remember exactly what I said). I promised the kids money for their work, but instead kept telling them that I was waiting for a meeting with some business people and that they would get the money then. 3. I recruited friends of the kids who didn’t want to work in my sweatshop causing their friends who didn’t want to join to work for me too because otherwise they wouldn’t have anyone to play with during recess. 4. I gave people “promotions” if they worked hard and said that they could help me recruit and that they would make more money when the business took off. 5. After a week of running my very own empire, the kids realized I wasn’t going to pay them and I ended up going back to digging holes on the edge of the playground and trying to talk to the teachers because I didn’t have any friends.
I never knew of a black market in school, but I do recall one time I gamed an educational simulation game thing in a way the teachers weren't expecting. Basically, it was a gold rush thing (Aussie gold rush; I'm not sure if other countries do stuff like this for their gold rushes. Or if they had gold rushes, for that matter, but I digress) and it went as follows. So the room was set up with various "stores", a bank, a doctor's office, et cetera, and the day was split into two halves, and us kids were split into groups. Each group would take a turn being the gold searchers whilst the other ran the businesses. The gold searchers would have to take odd jobs to earn some money to purchase some key items (two different tools, some tea and a snack, if memory serves), then go out to the sand pit with their tools, dig up some "gold" (scrunched-up tinfoil) and take it to the bank to be appraised. There wasn't an official winner, but it was kept track of and in true twelve-year-old fashion, it was understood among us that whilst the teachers wouldn't name winners, we knew whoever had the most money at the end, would win in our eyes. I was in group two, so I started my day in a business role, and lucky me got the role of doctor. I lived for this role, as that was the part of the gold rush I hyperfocused on at the time. How that worked, was there was a "sick hat", a beanie that, if it was given to you, you had to drop everything and go get some medical attention. And I would gleefully hack off limbs at a whiff of infection, prescribe sketchy medicines and suggest clean water, then happily send them on their way (after massively overcharging and wiping out their savings, of course; medical treatment isn't cheap!) And then we get to how I gamed the system when it came my turn to be a gold searcher and got one of the highest amounts of money, without digging a single bit of gold. So I kind of went around, doing odd jobs, making pennies, when I came to the post office. Now, the odd job at the post office, was you would have to make stamps by taking some of the pre-cut paper and drawing a design on it. You'd earn a little more if you made them in bulk. And I was an artistic kid, loved drawing, did it all the time. So I thrived at this job, made my twenty stamps, and presented them to the postmaster. The postmaster, pleased I drew well rather than just scribbling some colour, gave me a little bonus for my troubles. So I thought, "Hey, why don't I make some more and get another bonus? I'm already comfortable, but I'll give myself a leg-up on the competition!" and make more I did. I stayed at this job the whole time. Bought my snack, bought my tea, didn't step foot outside because I was making more at my comfortable office job than those schmucks were out there, chancing a fortune but never quite getting there. I miss that day :P
Former substitute teacher here. I once caught a student selling some mystery items out of a locked box in his backpack. Immediately recognized it as a stash box. Wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I went over to ask what he was selling. He said stickers. I said cool, can I see your stickers? He said these stickers weren't for teachers. At that point I was convinced it was drugs. It turned into a whole scene where he wouldn't show me the contents of the box, the principal and vice principal came down, he tried giving the box to another student while I wasn't looking, etc, all while insisting it wasn't drugs. Well, it wasn't drugs. This boy had bought an actual physical copy of a "naughty" magazine and cut out the pictures. He was selling old fashioned dirty photos in class. These were high schoolers and they all had access to all the content they could want from their phones, but somehow there was a thriving market for magazine cutouts. Kid got detention so it wasn't too big a deal. Still makes me laugh.
at my elementary school there were little paper cards kids could get awarded that were named bobcats after our mascot. kids could trade bobcats in with teachers for various candies and trinkets at the beginning of the day, at lunch, or at the end of the day. normally it'd be small stuff like hershey's kisses, those spider rings, pencils, etc. but if your bobcat had a pawprint stamped on it? oh buddy, you were in for a treat- regular-size candy bars, fun-colored pens and highlighters, whistles, stuff like that. the bobcats came in decks of (i think) 50, and there were maybe three pawprints in the entire deck, so these things were rare. at the principal's office there were extra-special prizes for if you saved up 5-20 pawprints- king-sized candies, whole boxes of mechanical pencils, hats, badges, and the best prize of all: a 15-pawprint set of school-themed stamps. why was this the best prize? because the same stamp used for making pawprints was in that set, and none of the teachers knew about it. when i realized that i knew i had struck gold. i traded around for all the pawprints i could get my hands on, which wasn't easy considering most kids spent theirs at lunch to get candy. some i traded for legitimately with candy or cool pens or pokemon cards or LPS toys i bought from home, some i took with the promise of giving the person 2 pawprints back, some of them i found on the floor. it took me about a week to save up the fifteen needed, and i bought that set of stamps immediately. i begun stamping illegal pawprints after a week, making sure to wait some time before i started. i'd do one pawprint for a dime, or five for a quarter. if you brought your own bobcats for me to stamp, i'd charge one nickel per. kids could also bring in things to barter with me, stuff like toys and candy, sometimes even offering me stacks of regular bobcats in return for one pawprint. eventually one of the teachers caught wind of someone doing this because people were spending way too many pawprints way too quickly, and they changed the stamp used for making them (as well as taking the set of stamps off of the prize list). wanna guess which stamp was also in the set that i had? this time i would only do five pawprints per week per kid, i kept track by making my own secret alphabet (like wingdings) and writing names and amounts down on my arm at the beginning of each day, transferring them to a piece of paper when i got home (and then back on my arm when i woke up). when i reached 5th grade graduation, i found one of my most loyal 1st grade customer and gave them the whole set. i taught them to be wary when stamping, to only do deals when on the playground and away from adults, to hide the stamps when not in use and never leave them in his desk, etc. Joel, i hope you passed those stamps on again, and i hope they're still in use. godspeed, whoever the pawprint peddler is now
In my old school, students selling stuff was prohibited. When my friend offered me a fridge magnet he himself made, with an entire stock hidden inside his lunchbox. I became his temporary accomplice throughout the school after that. I told him places he could sell his magnets to people without getting caught. The shop went on without issue, and I gained a free magnet for my efforts, all of the ones I bought + the free one are on my fridge to this day.
i helped a friend in middle school run a slime black market. slime was banned in school but ofc that made everyone fiend for it more. a friend realized she could make some actual money off of it and convinced her mom to buy her an INSANE slime kit. she would make anywhere from 50 to 100 slimes a day and put them into different containers. small containers were 50 cents, large were a dollar. if you wanted extras in it, it went up 50 cents for every add in. she sold up to i believe 300 dollars worth of slime before we were caught and the principal was LIVID.
15:00 Also quick story, the other day I was in class and the fire alarm went off. We went outside in the freezing cold (I’m Canadian so where I live it gets colder faster) and I asked the teacher was this a drill. Apparently, there was never a fire drill planned for that week. But I know what happened. As we were evacuating the school, I could easily smell the terrible, thick stench of cigarette smoke and vape. Now everyone is %90 sure that some guys were smoking in the halls and the cigarette smoke set off the fire alarm. Nice one. You really did it this time.
My friend ran a black market last week in a weekend camp where he sold candy to everyone. He made $75 CAD and $40 of it was from one kid😂 Then he told me that he is keeping the business going in our school and now he convinced some kids from other schools to expand the business to other schools for %30 of the money they collect every day. He still has it running and growing strong.
i also had a scissors enterprise except i wouldn’t sell the scissors i would rent them out. it started when this guy needed a pair of scissors to open a pixie stick that was packed in his lunch i told him i’d let him use mine if he paid me. i think i made a total of $47 doing that to different people i can’t remember how much i charged though. the guy kept raving to other students about how good my business was and that’s how i found my market.
My little elementary had a full economy of ice blocks (Canada amirite). A large ice chunk could get you a chocolate bar from the rich kids. There we’re different gangs that took over different sections of the park sized yard we had at recess. My friend group were the scammers. The “rules” were “each team had to have a vault / fort made out of small-medium blocks. If someone is guarding it, no stealing, however an unprotected vault is fait game”. We would go to unguarded forts and steal an entire wall, then sell it back at a higher price. It got so bad that 3 groups we scammed became a sort of coalition and would hunt us down to pelt us with snow because we deserved it. It came to a head when someone “accidentally” threw an ice ball and hit me in the back of the head with it, we all agreed it had gone too far, and the war was over. That was my last year there and apparently the teachers caught wind of it and so any forts would be destroyed by teachers to prevent what I did. So yeah, I ruined a school tradition over a black market of already used ice.
My middle school teacher had his own currency and reward system. I ran the candy black market and sold homework passes for real cash. He had puzzles out for homeroom periods to encourage critical thinking, giving his classroom currency as a reward. 5 for candy, 12 to skip an assignment, limited payouts per puzzle that reset every quarter of the year. I was the class nerd, so this was home field. In exchange for explaining the puzzle and step by step instructions, I'd get a cut of their payout. I also undercut the teacher's candy prices at 2 pixy sticks for 1, a 10x better deal. I spent nothing. The classroom had constant currency shortages because a handful of people speedran puzzles and bought whenever more were printed. Average person had less than 10. I had 400 and was selling homework passes for $5. Bought Skyrim for Nintendo Switch with drug money. With 2 weeks left, I handed out stacks of 50 to friends and a whole year's worth of demand for the teacher's legal candy happened at once. Daily limits were put in place like wartime rations
I WAS my high school's Black Market , out of a Giant tackle box I sold EVERYTHING from Pencils to Porn and our school was so underfunded nobody tried to stop me because my prices were reasonable , and I gave Teachers discounts.
None of the Teachers EVER bought Pron from me , that was my fellow Students (Both Male and Female) the Worst a Teacher ever bought off me was Alcohol , and That was Usually on Friday Afternoons.
Pencils to Porn , Apples to Alcohol I eighter had it in my Tackle Box , my Locker , or could get it for you by the end of the School day. Thanks to my "family" I had connections to the Real Black Market at the time.
Not so much the school (I mean I don’t know) but my class - one of the girls got the Klutz puffball pompom critter maker set and made pompom pets for her friends. Anybody else who wanted one could buy one for, I think, about $1.50. This wasn’t hidden, it was out in the open. I had the brilliant idea of starting my own custom critter shop making paper hop-frogs. This did not go over nearly as well, and right about then the teacher shut it all down. Spoilsport.
One of my friends started selling “questionable stickers” and eventually a week later almost everyone in the school had these stickers on their lanyards and around the school. It lasted for a whole school year and no one got in trouble. I was lucky enough to get free ones too.👌💀
I sold burnt CDs in school. People had regular ones that could hold like 15-18 songs or whatever, but I was the first one who found out about the data CDs or w/e they were called that held a ridiculous amount of songs. I sold regular burnt cd mixes for maybe $3-$5 a piece depending on if it was a friend, how many songs, etc. Like a random kid asking for 15 songs id charge $5, a friend asking for 15 songs id charge $3. a song. They’d give me a paper with a list with artist and song name and I’d go download them, then burn them. My dad was a musician and had a billion blank CDs and a decent computer for the time. Still slow af, (idr exactly, but it def took hours to burn) maybe 10-15min to find the songs and make sure it wasn’t fake or weird, another 45m-1h to download them fully, (could partially DL them and preview them or something like that before fully DLing) then another couple hours to burn the CD. I only had to be on the computer for maybe 20-30 mins and I could go do other stuff for the other hour while they downloaded, then I’d come back and put them in a folder or w/e and start the burning process, then go do other stuff for a couple hours. When I got back I’d have a burnt CD like 9/10 times. 1/10 times something would happen like it getting corrupted or whatever but pretty infrequent. These were just regular CD-Rs I think? Some other ppl were doing the same thing so I didn’t make much, maybe made $15-$20 a week. Then my dad showed me those data CDs or whatever they were called that could hold a ridiculous amount of music. CD-RWs if my search was correct. Like hours and hours worth. Not every CD player played them, but newer ones did, a lot of newer cars did, etc. Then a portable CD player that played them became popular enough to be pretty affordable. Not many people knew how to make them though, my dad taught me. Most kids didn’t know their new CD player could play them either. So I had no competition for a long time. I’d burn like 30-50 song mixes for people and charge $10-$12. Still cheaper than a CD at the store, except you got every song you wanted and like 3x the amount. So they were happy to pay. This went on for probably two entire school years and I made a pretty good amount of money. The $15-$20 a week turned in to like $50 a week which was like being rich at the time lol. I was real young, this was elementary school mostly then beginning of middle school. Like age 10-13 or so? Maybe 9-13? It says Napster got shut down in 2001, I remember that bc my dad used it but I was super young like 7yo. I maybe used it for a little but it was about all 🍋🟩 wire and stuff like that. Nobody in my school had an MP3 player like an 📱 until years after they came out. I didn’t grow up in a very rich area to say the least. I don’t remember seeing MP3 players in school until I was like 14 or so in like 2008, and it wasn’t until I was maybe 15 that a ton of ppl had them which is when my business came crashing down 😂. So ya I think I sold the CDs that held a billion songs from about 10-13yo, sold the regular ones for a couple years prior…good times. I was cleaning out my stuff a few years ago and found a burnt CD that said So Far Gone in sharpie. It somehow was still in working condition. I remember downloading that mixtape from that blog at like 3AM or something and listening to it a million times. I had Section 80 on CD and a bunch of other really early mixtapes from Drake, Kendrick, Big Sean, etc.
For me, one of my teachers gave out "tickets" to kids who were good. It was a little blue and white ticket that the kid received and had to write their name on. Over time, you could collect your tickets, or enter them into the class raffle where you could receive some cool rewards, like little toys or gadgets. The kids immediately used them as currency. They'd start little shops; one kid sold transformer drawings for tickets, a few kids made those cool paper claw things and sold them for tickets, and one kid sold hunks of those tiny bead magnets - I bought a clump of bead magnets and still have them to this day! They're so cool. That teacher was the best.
When I was in high school of my Junior year, I was a band kid(saxophone). I come from a town known for some loud and rowdy people, and the people I went to school with were no better. Well, we used to buy kazoos in bulk and sell them under the table. But then I decided to try and sell an airhorn instead, I made $20 from an $8 airhorn. Then, it picked up. One of our guys sold a damn megaphone, we even had to get our hands on an exotic good: A FREAKING TRAIN HORN. Do not ask how, but the lad who played trombone delivered. Mind you, this was likely at least $120 for this thing. This madman actually paid $200 for it. We were all stunned. Then it got better, as we decided to pass along a sort of "senior prank". We were due to have a tornado drill. And the staff at the school used an airhorn to signal it. Well, the teachers started to make rounds to gather us up. Each time one of those horns went off, you could hear more firing off. Principal gathered us in the auditorium, he was straight seeing red over the spread of kazoos and airhorns going around the school, chick that bought the megaphone got herself in trouble with it. Me and my band mates were called up because we had literal boxes of kazoos, I lost six airhorns and three boxes of kazoos over this.
The Conker trade, at my old primary that was the biggest thing, collecting the largest and prettiest horse chestnuts to trade for whatever else, sharpened sticks, old nails and metal bits from the back of the dingy school building, small amounts of real money, etc etc. Teachers never cared unless it was something dangerous like the aforementioned nails, but usually it was just other conkers. It's a hit of nostalgia just thinking about it, we got up to a lot back then.
For a few days in primary school (elementary, I believe. We were 10-11) there was an ''apple war'' going on in my year (grade), where people would just... throw apples at eachother? It's really weird to think back on, and I don't remember many details. However, I have a clear memory of selling apples to the other kids. Unlike many of the stories, I didn't ask for real money- instead I asked for the sequins people could find in the mud on our playground. I made business cards with my prices on it, and people would buy apples off of me. I would spend my breaks and lunches (and even after school) finding apples for people to buy off me for dirty microplastics. I believe at some point the teachers shut it down, because people were starting to get badly injured by apple-to-the-head. Sadly, I think I lost all those sequins and business cards a long time ago.
Kinda similar my friend was a great artist and did fake tattoos at recess until the teacher found out I think they charged a dollar or so depending on how detailed or big they were. Man do I miss them haven't seen them in years because they moved away.
I ran a silly bandz mafia. I was the godfather, I had an extensive collection and people would come and trade silly bandz with me. They wanted a dolphin, they had to pay me with a lion plus interest (usually a common one). They could also rent them to impress people, and I took payment plans with interest, but the thing that made it a real messed up plan is I had my two buddies shake people down and bring them to me if I didn't get paid on time or if I found someone had bought a new pack to try to deal under my nose. There was a tree that grew in three trunks on the playground and I would sit up in it and look down on my playground. Now in truth, it was all in fun, no one got hurt and I was generally very sweet if someone was actually getting upset, but it was a little Christian private school with 60 kids total and we were all creating our little society... And I wanted to be the shadow leader. We had a "mayor", but he didn't hold a candle to the voting power of the silly bandz.
Not really a "black market" but In 6th grade I sold those fuzzy worms that can "move" with a clear string for a dollar a piece. I also sold those tiny plastic babies for 50 cents for a handful.
After my trip i would bring back candys and chocolates and what not and sell them for 5-10 each, there was this one kid who offered 500 for a whole bag of oatmeal Chocolates. Safe to say i got a LOT of money bc of this
My school's black market was the Hay Wares. At my elementary school the field next to the playground grew hay every year. The girls and boys would go to war with each other, electing leaders who assigned second-in-commands, captains and lieutenants. We would plan raids on the girls and steal their stash to add to our own. I don't remember if we got shut down or not though, I think most of the kids were pretty reasonable about it and didn't throw down too hard over the hay trade. 😂 it was so much fun
Oh gosh this reminds me. We used to play house in elementary but we took it up a notch by finding bushes near the school and cleaning it then decorating (leaf, usable trash, whatever). But the "girls" had a rivalry with the boys and they would often steal our lairs so we had to find new ones.😅
I ran one. In about 7th grade my cousin got a 3d printer. I had blender on a home computer so I quickly made a cup model and put a hot dog in it(middle school humor). So I got my cousin to print about 40 mini hot dog in a cups. Went to school and just started handing them out. It turned into a currency of some sorts , kids would trade them for things. For example this kid gave up 4 of them for a slinky. At some point my science teacher even chimed in. If you gave her 1 mini hdica's you would get a pencil. Next year it died off and everyone forgot about them lol
I have a dark cult story: Some girls at my school convinced a recess monitor TO GIVE THEM A PHONE AND SPEAKER. No reason, just cuz they are girls. All the boys complained but didn’t help. The breaking point is when they got into an argument, someone cried, and a teacher saw the commotion. THEY FINALLY GOT THE SPEAKER AND PHONE REVOKED. Idk if/what the punishments were.
also here’s a girlsvboys story: One time in line, one of my classmates jumped on someone’s glasses. Days later, all the girls target the person who did it. That recess was absolute MADNESS. Some people also started a peace clan to stop the war. The war is ongoing but passive. I’ll update soon.
My black market story is my friend made me buy a Roblox account of the Roblox black market and it turned out to be a real account that I spent 5 dollars on
On those Neon Pens in the 90's, did these have that solvent that makes you high if you breathe in too much of it? Bc I distinctly remember a few kids at my school that developed a habit of sniffing on certain brands of text markers.
People would buy answers off of me. I used to just let people copy them because I gave no fucks, I just wanted to be done. Eventually, someone charged me $1 for me to do their work, which I declined, but said he could copy my answers for a dollar. He took up the deal. Since then, every time a substitute teacher was in the room, this guy would pay a dollar to copy my answers. Other people copied them as well, but I'm not gonna haggle people over a dollar. There were a few incidents where people would also buy my answers in other classes, but it was mostly this specific class that I got paid in. Edit: Teacher never really noticed. He was a great teacher, but somehow never noticed that on days he was out, me and like seven other people ended up with the same answers. Maybe he wanted us to work together, I don't know.
Me and my siblings would (and still sometimes do) draw and have one of our other siblings rate them and whoever had the most points (stars we drew in the corner of a page) would win it was actually really fun but obviously the judges were always byest for there siblings they liked better or just felt bad for the youngest
ah yea pokemon cards... wasnt into it but my friends, and my dad had a realy expensive copy machine that can print on thick paper, so i copyed some of my brothers card and just printed them to sell, even made some of my own creations and everyone was super hyped cuz im the only one who got super rar pokenmon card that no one else got haha, also tryed it with money, cuz it was an old machine it just printed them, but i wasnt brave enouth to spent them, still got an 50€ note from that time and it still looks pretty real to me like 18 years later
I remember 2 things back in highschool but it wasn't out of ordinary stuff though. The teacher for the ISS room sold snacks and few people knew about it. Principle eventually had her stop that. The other thing, this other guy and I refilled people's vape pods for a little money. If you are vaping in school don't do it with others keep it to yourself and be aware of factors like smell, how much you blow out and what direction, easier to see smoke at certain light angles. Lol the other guy I mentioned he got caught one time cause he was completely unaware doing it in a classroom, in front of a window with light shining in. Not saying you should but if you decide to then just know.
7:36 Not even that far back. okay, to explain, in one episode of Ross's game dungeon, specifically the Go to Hell episode, Ross Scott told a story about how when he worked at a copy shop when he was in College, he and a work buddy drew up actual soul contracts with help from either a family member or law student, I forget which, and got some candy. The only way to get the candy was to sign a contract, and all in all, they collected about 20 souls between them iirc, just off of people who wanted something to snack on before/between/after classes. These were *college students* selling their souls for candy. The contract was legally binding too apparently.
With the cigarettes thing, I respect the hustle. Obviously, I don't approve of cigarettes and smoking, especially at that age but the hustle in general? I respect it
I had a friend who bought a pack of gum for 5 dollars. They were supper small squares that I personally didn't think people would buy, but I respect the hustle, and she made $32 dollar profit the first day. A small scale one, and by that, I mean it involved 4 people, me and my sister, and a set of 2 twins. Twin1 tells my sister he likes me, and when I didn't agree, he paid his brother, Twin2, Halloween candy to shut down my laptop when I'm using it. It was annoying, but I can respect their hustle as well. And since the twins don't have 7th together, me and Twin2 made a deal that he's stop shutting down my laptop, and I would say he shut it down if his brother ever asked so he still get paid
There was a black market using ramen as the currency in my grade school. The person I remember with the best stuff was obviously Asian . Not sure what flavor of Asian she was. But she could get pretty much anything with just a little of it.
Not really a black market, but I would sell doughnuts I bought for 50 cents a doughnut for a dollar each. Any doughnuts left over by the end of the day I'd just have for myself. I could almost always sell at least half or more so it kept paying for itself.
"Children yearning for trade" is why capitalism will succeed? "No tangible value"? Welcome to subjective value, how capitalism says value works, as opposed to tangible value/real value/labor theory of value, which capitalism says is crap.
My parents own a toystore (which i currently work at) in highschool back when fidget spinners were popular thing i asked my parents who sold them to give me some i ended up selling them for 5$s each i gave 2$s to my parents for each one sold but i also got some higher quality ones and there was this one asian kid who was born with a silver spoon (he was like the first person in our grade to get a debt card) anyways he bought from me alot sometimes he would buy my entire stock and give it to his friends he was a good guy and more importantly a good customer one of the rarer ones i sold to him for 30$s since he bought in bulk with 50$s xD
My friend Jim sold gum [still does it] that he made, he gave it for free for the first piece but charged £0.50 for a massive piece of gum. Edit:1 he dropped more flavours so ima check it out, all flavours are strawberry lime, strawberry and mango. Edit 2: forgot lime flavour
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I realized I was good at selling in high school. I started with a paper clip every day and by lunch had traded enough to buy lunch. Grew up dirt poor so if I failed I was hungry. I got so good at it people came to me for advance trades (hey can you find me X?). I’m in sales to this day and very successful. Broke the poverty cycle because high school taught me how to survive.
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I started an acorn black market. Every day during recess, I would go around and collect acorns and somehow convinced a kid to give me candy in exchange for acorns. After that, I traded more and it spiraled
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@@FlyTrag 1. Second graders are dumb
2. I set up a sweat shop during recess and had like twenty kids cracking open acorns. I would take the orange parts from inside the acorns, add water, and mash them up. I told people it was a magical paste that would make them the most good looking or something (I don’t remember exactly what I said). I promised the kids money for their work, but instead kept telling them that I was waiting for a meeting with some business people and that they would get the money then.
3. I recruited friends of the kids who didn’t want to work in my sweatshop causing their friends who didn’t want to join to work for me too because otherwise they wouldn’t have anyone to play with during recess.
4. I gave people “promotions” if they worked hard and said that they could help me recruit and that they would make more money when the business took off.
5. After a week of running my very own empire, the kids realized I wasn’t going to pay them and I ended up going back to digging holes on the edge of the playground and trying to talk to the teachers because I didn’t have any friends.
Acorns. How.
I never knew of a black market in school, but I do recall one time I gamed an educational simulation game thing in a way the teachers weren't expecting. Basically, it was a gold rush thing (Aussie gold rush; I'm not sure if other countries do stuff like this for their gold rushes. Or if they had gold rushes, for that matter, but I digress) and it went as follows.
So the room was set up with various "stores", a bank, a doctor's office, et cetera, and the day was split into two halves, and us kids were split into groups. Each group would take a turn being the gold searchers whilst the other ran the businesses. The gold searchers would have to take odd jobs to earn some money to purchase some key items (two different tools, some tea and a snack, if memory serves), then go out to the sand pit with their tools, dig up some "gold" (scrunched-up tinfoil) and take it to the bank to be appraised. There wasn't an official winner, but it was kept track of and in true twelve-year-old fashion, it was understood among us that whilst the teachers wouldn't name winners, we knew whoever had the most money at the end, would win in our eyes.
I was in group two, so I started my day in a business role, and lucky me got the role of doctor. I lived for this role, as that was the part of the gold rush I hyperfocused on at the time. How that worked, was there was a "sick hat", a beanie that, if it was given to you, you had to drop everything and go get some medical attention. And I would gleefully hack off limbs at a whiff of infection, prescribe sketchy medicines and suggest clean water, then happily send them on their way (after massively overcharging and wiping out their savings, of course; medical treatment isn't cheap!)
And then we get to how I gamed the system when it came my turn to be a gold searcher and got one of the highest amounts of money, without digging a single bit of gold.
So I kind of went around, doing odd jobs, making pennies, when I came to the post office. Now, the odd job at the post office, was you would have to make stamps by taking some of the pre-cut paper and drawing a design on it. You'd earn a little more if you made them in bulk. And I was an artistic kid, loved drawing, did it all the time. So I thrived at this job, made my twenty stamps, and presented them to the postmaster. The postmaster, pleased I drew well rather than just scribbling some colour, gave me a little bonus for my troubles. So I thought, "Hey, why don't I make some more and get another bonus? I'm already comfortable, but I'll give myself a leg-up on the competition!" and make more I did. I stayed at this job the whole time. Bought my snack, bought my tea, didn't step foot outside because I was making more at my comfortable office job than those schmucks were out there, chancing a fortune but never quite getting there.
I miss that day :P
Ah yes, the american health system! 😂😂😂
Former substitute teacher here. I once caught a student selling some mystery items out of a locked box in his backpack. Immediately recognized it as a stash box. Wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I went over to ask what he was selling. He said stickers. I said cool, can I see your stickers? He said these stickers weren't for teachers.
At that point I was convinced it was drugs. It turned into a whole scene where he wouldn't show me the contents of the box, the principal and vice principal came down, he tried giving the box to another student while I wasn't looking, etc, all while insisting it wasn't drugs.
Well, it wasn't drugs.
This boy had bought an actual physical copy of a "naughty" magazine and cut out the pictures. He was selling old fashioned dirty photos in class.
These were high schoolers and they all had access to all the content they could want from their phones, but somehow there was a thriving market for magazine cutouts. Kid got detention so it wasn't too big a deal. Still makes me laugh.
realest reddit story
@@silversnakeanimations79 Lol ain't even the wildest thing to happen at that school
@@mrCabbages_ bro ur story is obviously fake
@@silversnakeanimations79 Lol why?
@@silversnakeanimations79 why?
at my elementary school there were little paper cards kids could get awarded that were named bobcats after our mascot. kids could trade bobcats in with teachers for various candies and trinkets at the beginning of the day, at lunch, or at the end of the day. normally it'd be small stuff like hershey's kisses, those spider rings, pencils, etc. but if your bobcat had a pawprint stamped on it? oh buddy, you were in for a treat- regular-size candy bars, fun-colored pens and highlighters, whistles, stuff like that. the bobcats came in decks of (i think) 50, and there were maybe three pawprints in the entire deck, so these things were rare. at the principal's office there were extra-special prizes for if you saved up 5-20 pawprints- king-sized candies, whole boxes of mechanical pencils, hats, badges, and the best prize of all: a 15-pawprint set of school-themed stamps. why was this the best prize? because the same stamp used for making pawprints was in that set, and none of the teachers knew about it. when i realized that i knew i had struck gold. i traded around for all the pawprints i could get my hands on, which wasn't easy considering most kids spent theirs at lunch to get candy. some i traded for legitimately with candy or cool pens or pokemon cards or LPS toys i bought from home, some i took with the promise of giving the person 2 pawprints back, some of them i found on the floor. it took me about a week to save up the fifteen needed, and i bought that set of stamps immediately. i begun stamping illegal pawprints after a week, making sure to wait some time before i started. i'd do one pawprint for a dime, or five for a quarter. if you brought your own bobcats for me to stamp, i'd charge one nickel per. kids could also bring in things to barter with me, stuff like toys and candy, sometimes even offering me stacks of regular bobcats in return for one pawprint. eventually one of the teachers caught wind of someone doing this because people were spending way too many pawprints way too quickly, and they changed the stamp used for making them (as well as taking the set of stamps off of the prize list). wanna guess which stamp was also in the set that i had? this time i would only do five pawprints per week per kid, i kept track by making my own secret alphabet (like wingdings) and writing names and amounts down on my arm at the beginning of each day, transferring them to a piece of paper when i got home (and then back on my arm when i woke up). when i reached 5th grade graduation, i found one of my most loyal 1st grade customer and gave them the whole set. i taught them to be wary when stamping, to only do deals when on the playground and away from adults, to hide the stamps when not in use and never leave them in his desk, etc. Joel, i hope you passed those stamps on again, and i hope they're still in use. godspeed, whoever the pawprint peddler is now
Wow! Impressive for a kid especially in 5th grade!
In my old school, students selling stuff was prohibited. When my friend offered me a fridge magnet he himself made, with an entire stock hidden inside his lunchbox. I became his temporary accomplice throughout the school after that. I told him places he could sell his magnets to people without getting caught. The shop went on without issue, and I gained a free magnet for my efforts, all of the ones I bought + the free one are on my fridge to this day.
i helped a friend in middle school run a slime black market. slime was banned in school but ofc that made everyone fiend for it more. a friend realized she could make some actual money off of it and convinced her mom to buy her an INSANE slime kit. she would make anywhere from 50 to 100 slimes a day and put them into different containers. small containers were 50 cents, large were a dollar. if you wanted extras in it, it went up 50 cents for every add in. she sold up to i believe 300 dollars worth of slime before we were caught and the principal was LIVID.
The bottle cap trading story gave me Fallout vibes. Nice narration, btw!
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Also quick story, the other day I was in class and the fire alarm went off. We went outside in the freezing cold (I’m Canadian so where I live it gets colder faster) and I asked the teacher was this a drill. Apparently, there was never a fire drill planned for that week. But I know what happened. As we were evacuating the school, I could easily smell the terrible, thick stench of cigarette smoke and vape. Now everyone is %90 sure that some guys were smoking in the halls and the cigarette smoke set off the fire alarm. Nice one. You really did it this time.
My friend ran a black market last week in a weekend camp where he sold candy to everyone. He made $75 CAD and $40 of it was from one kid😂
Then he told me that he is keeping the business going in our school and now he convinced some kids from other schools to expand the business to other schools for %30 of the money they collect every day. He still has it running and growing strong.
i also had a scissors enterprise except i wouldn’t sell the scissors i would rent them out. it started when this guy needed a pair of scissors to open a pixie stick that was packed in his lunch i told him i’d let him use mine if he paid me. i think i made a total of $47 doing that to different people i can’t remember how much i charged though. the guy kept raving to other students about how good my business was and that’s how i found my market.
My little elementary had a full economy of ice blocks (Canada amirite). A large ice chunk could get you a chocolate bar from the rich kids. There we’re different gangs that took over different sections of the park sized yard we had at recess. My friend group were the scammers. The “rules” were “each team had to have a vault / fort made out of small-medium blocks. If someone is guarding it, no stealing, however an unprotected vault is fait game”. We would go to unguarded forts and steal an entire wall, then sell it back at a higher price. It got so bad that 3 groups we scammed became a sort of coalition and would hunt us down to pelt us with snow because we deserved it. It came to a head when someone “accidentally” threw an ice ball and hit me in the back of the head with it, we all agreed it had gone too far, and the war was over. That was my last year there and apparently the teachers caught wind of it and so any forts would be destroyed by teachers to prevent what I did. So yeah, I ruined a school tradition over a black market of already used ice.
Juice boxes had real crazy value. Used to be able to trade one for an epic sandwich or other homemade food a mom put their love into
My middle school teacher had his own currency and reward system. I ran the candy black market and sold homework passes for real cash.
He had puzzles out for homeroom periods to encourage critical thinking, giving his classroom currency as a reward. 5 for candy, 12 to skip an assignment, limited payouts per puzzle that reset every quarter of the year.
I was the class nerd, so this was home field. In exchange for explaining the puzzle and step by step instructions, I'd get a cut of their payout. I also undercut the teacher's candy prices at 2 pixy sticks for 1, a 10x better deal.
I spent nothing. The classroom had constant currency shortages because a handful of people speedran puzzles and bought whenever more were printed.
Average person had less than 10. I had 400 and was selling homework passes for $5. Bought Skyrim for Nintendo Switch with drug money. With 2 weeks left, I handed out stacks of 50 to friends and a whole year's worth of demand for the teacher's legal candy happened at once. Daily limits were put in place like wartime rations
I WAS my high school's Black Market , out of a Giant tackle box I sold EVERYTHING from Pencils to Porn and our school was so underfunded nobody tried to stop me because my prices were reasonable , and I gave Teachers discounts.
wait... you sold p0rn to teachers???
something about teachers buying adult photos from a high schooler WITH a discount is really funny to me idk why
None of the Teachers EVER bought Pron from me , that was my fellow Students (Both Male and Female) the Worst a Teacher ever bought off me was Alcohol , and That was Usually on Friday Afternoons.
"I sold everything from Pencils to Porn"
Well, that escalated quickly.
Pencils to Porn , Apples to Alcohol I eighter had it in my Tackle Box , my Locker , or could get it for you by the end of the School day. Thanks to my "family" I had connections to the Real Black Market at the time.
Not so much the school (I mean I don’t know) but my class - one of the girls got the Klutz puffball pompom critter maker set and made pompom pets for her friends. Anybody else who wanted one could buy one for, I think, about $1.50. This wasn’t hidden, it was out in the open.
I had the brilliant idea of starting my own custom critter shop making paper hop-frogs. This did not go over nearly as well, and right about then the teacher shut it all down. Spoilsport.
She ended the operation before anyone else had the chance to compete. That's VERY cutthroat.
Towards the end of Covid, my bus had a stress toy black market. Teachers tried to shut it down several times, but never succeeded.
One of my friends started selling “questionable stickers” and eventually a week later almost everyone in the school had these stickers on their lanyards and around the school. It lasted for a whole school year and no one got in trouble. I was lucky enough to get free ones too.👌💀
I sold burnt CDs in school. People had regular ones that could hold like 15-18 songs or whatever, but I was the first one who found out about the data CDs or w/e they were called that held a ridiculous amount of songs. I sold regular burnt cd mixes for maybe $3-$5 a piece depending on if it was a friend, how many songs, etc. Like a random kid asking for 15 songs id charge $5, a friend asking for 15 songs id charge $3. a song. They’d give me a paper with a list with artist and song name and I’d go download them, then burn them. My dad was a musician and had a billion blank CDs and a decent computer for the time.
Still slow af, (idr exactly, but it def took hours to burn) maybe 10-15min to find the songs and make sure it wasn’t fake or weird, another 45m-1h to download them fully, (could partially DL them and preview them or something like that before fully DLing) then another couple hours to burn the CD. I only had to be on the computer for maybe 20-30 mins and I could go do other stuff for the other hour while they downloaded, then I’d come back and put them in a folder or w/e and start the burning process, then go do other stuff for a couple hours. When I got back I’d have a burnt CD like 9/10 times. 1/10 times something would happen like it getting corrupted or whatever but pretty infrequent.
These were just regular CD-Rs I think?
Some other ppl were doing the same thing so I didn’t make much, maybe made $15-$20 a week. Then my dad showed me those data CDs or whatever they were called that could hold a ridiculous amount of music. CD-RWs if my search was correct. Like hours and hours worth. Not every CD player played them, but newer ones did, a lot of newer cars did, etc. Then a portable CD player that played them became popular enough to be pretty affordable. Not many people knew how to make them though, my dad taught me. Most kids didn’t know their new CD player could play them either.
So I had no competition for a long time. I’d burn like 30-50 song mixes for people and charge $10-$12. Still cheaper than a CD at the store, except you got every song you wanted and like 3x the amount. So they were happy to pay. This went on for probably two entire school years and I made a pretty good amount of money. The $15-$20 a week turned in to like $50 a week which was like being rich at the time lol.
I was real young, this was elementary school mostly then beginning of middle school. Like age 10-13 or so? Maybe 9-13? It says Napster got shut down in 2001, I remember that bc my dad used it but I was super young like 7yo. I maybe used it for a little but it was about all 🍋🟩 wire and stuff like that. Nobody in my school had an MP3 player like an 📱 until years after they came out. I didn’t grow up in a very rich area to say the least. I don’t remember seeing MP3 players in school until I was like 14 or so in like 2008, and it wasn’t until I was maybe 15 that a ton of ppl had them which is when my business came crashing down 😂.
So ya I think I sold the CDs that held a billion songs from about 10-13yo, sold the regular ones for a couple years prior…good times. I was cleaning out my stuff a few years ago and found a burnt CD that said So Far Gone in sharpie. It somehow was still in working condition. I remember downloading that mixtape from that blog at like 3AM or something and listening to it a million times. I had Section 80 on CD and a bunch of other really early mixtapes from Drake, Kendrick, Big Sean, etc.
For me, one of my teachers gave out "tickets" to kids who were good. It was a little blue and white ticket that the kid received and had to write their name on. Over time, you could collect your tickets, or enter them into the class raffle where you could receive some cool rewards, like little toys or gadgets. The kids immediately used them as currency. They'd start little shops; one kid sold transformer drawings for tickets, a few kids made those cool paper claw things and sold them for tickets, and one kid sold hunks of those tiny bead magnets - I bought a clump of bead magnets and still have them to this day! They're so cool. That teacher was the best.
When I was in high school of my Junior year, I was a band kid(saxophone). I come from a town known for some loud and rowdy people, and the people I went to school with were no better. Well, we used to buy kazoos in bulk and sell them under the table. But then I decided to try and sell an airhorn instead, I made $20 from an $8 airhorn. Then, it picked up. One of our guys sold a damn megaphone, we even had to get our hands on an exotic good: A FREAKING TRAIN HORN. Do not ask how, but the lad who played trombone delivered.
Mind you, this was likely at least $120 for this thing. This madman actually paid $200 for it. We were all stunned.
Then it got better, as we decided to pass along a sort of "senior prank". We were due to have a tornado drill. And the staff at the school used an airhorn to signal it. Well, the teachers started to make rounds to gather us up. Each time one of those horns went off, you could hear more firing off. Principal gathered us in the auditorium, he was straight seeing red over the spread of kazoos and airhorns going around the school, chick that bought the megaphone got herself in trouble with it. Me and my band mates were called up because we had literal boxes of kazoos, I lost six airhorns and three boxes of kazoos over this.
The Conker trade, at my old primary that was the biggest thing, collecting the largest and prettiest horse chestnuts to trade for whatever else, sharpened sticks, old nails and metal bits from the back of the dingy school building, small amounts of real money, etc etc. Teachers never cared unless it was something dangerous like the aforementioned nails, but usually it was just other conkers. It's a hit of nostalgia just thinking about it, we got up to a lot back then.
For a few days in primary school (elementary, I believe. We were 10-11) there was an ''apple war'' going on in my year (grade), where people would just... throw apples at eachother? It's really weird to think back on, and I don't remember many details. However, I have a clear memory of selling apples to the other kids. Unlike many of the stories, I didn't ask for real money- instead I asked for the sequins people could find in the mud on our playground. I made business cards with my prices on it, and people would buy apples off of me. I would spend my breaks and lunches (and even after school) finding apples for people to buy off me for dirty microplastics.
I believe at some point the teachers shut it down, because people were starting to get badly injured by apple-to-the-head. Sadly, I think I lost all those sequins and business cards a long time ago.
Kinda similar my friend was a great artist and did fake tattoos at recess until the teacher found out I think they charged a dollar or so depending on how detailed or big they were. Man do I miss them haven't seen them in years because they moved away.
My brother's friend had a fidget spinner black market going in middle school after the fidget spinner ban
I ran a silly bandz mafia. I was the godfather, I had an extensive collection and people would come and trade silly bandz with me. They wanted a dolphin, they had to pay me with a lion plus interest (usually a common one). They could also rent them to impress people, and I took payment plans with interest, but the thing that made it a real messed up plan is I had my two buddies shake people down and bring them to me if I didn't get paid on time or if I found someone had bought a new pack to try to deal under my nose. There was a tree that grew in three trunks on the playground and I would sit up in it and look down on my playground. Now in truth, it was all in fun, no one got hurt and I was generally very sweet if someone was actually getting upset, but it was a little Christian private school with 60 kids total and we were all creating our little society... And I wanted to be the shadow leader. We had a "mayor", but he didn't hold a candle to the voting power of the silly bandz.
You're my kind of person. Mad respect, oh dark shadow leader 😂
Not really a "black market" but In 6th grade I sold those fuzzy worms that can "move" with a clear string for a dollar a piece. I also sold those tiny plastic babies for 50 cents for a handful.
After my trip i would bring back candys and chocolates and what not and sell them for 5-10 each, there was this one kid who offered 500 for a whole bag of oatmeal Chocolates. Safe to say i got a LOT of money bc of this
My school's black market was the Hay Wares. At my elementary school the field next to the playground grew hay every year. The girls and boys would go to war with each other, electing leaders who assigned second-in-commands, captains and lieutenants. We would plan raids on the girls and steal their stash to add to our own. I don't remember if we got shut down or not though, I think most of the kids were pretty reasonable about it and didn't throw down too hard over the hay trade. 😂 it was so much fun
Oh gosh this reminds me. We used to play house in elementary but we took it up a notch by finding bushes near the school and cleaning it then decorating (leaf, usable trash, whatever). But the "girls" had a rivalry with the boys and they would often steal our lairs so we had to find new ones.😅
I ran one. In about 7th grade my cousin got a 3d printer. I had blender on a home computer so I quickly made a cup model and put a hot dog in it(middle school humor). So I got my cousin to print about 40 mini hot dog in a cups. Went to school and just started handing them out. It turned into a currency of some sorts , kids would trade them for things. For example this kid gave up 4 of them for a slinky. At some point my science teacher even chimed in. If you gave her 1 mini hdica's you would get a pencil. Next year it died off and everyone forgot about them lol
Im not sure how common "Fake town" school activities are, but one of my gradeschools did it. Might be less weird than you think
we had a hotwheels black market once, got like $15 from that
I have a dark cult story: Some girls at my school convinced a recess monitor TO GIVE THEM A PHONE AND SPEAKER. No reason, just cuz they are girls. All the boys complained but didn’t help. The breaking point is when they got into an argument, someone cried, and a teacher saw the commotion. THEY FINALLY GOT THE SPEAKER AND PHONE REVOKED. Idk if/what the punishments were.
also here’s a girlsvboys story: One time in line, one of my classmates jumped on someone’s glasses. Days later, all the girls target the person who did it. That recess was absolute MADNESS. Some people also started a peace clan to stop the war. The war is ongoing but passive. I’ll update soon.
My black market story is my friend made me buy a Roblox account of the Roblox black market and it turned out to be a real account that I spent 5 dollars on
The first MF was literally breaking bad
For the last story, they didn’t like the bic pens and highlighters for the same reason that other school didn’t like glue
OH SH-
On those Neon Pens in the 90's, did these have that solvent that makes you high if you breathe in too much of it? Bc I distinctly remember a few kids at my school that developed a habit of sniffing on certain brands of text markers.
Sounds like those fruit scented markers. I remember kids sniffing those like they were trying to snort coke, it was weird.
@@red0421 Nah it was just regular permanent marker. It smelled like shit but they kept sniffing their fumes.
@@nigerianprinceajani Sounds about right. 😆
People would buy answers off of me. I used to just let people copy them because I gave no fucks, I just wanted to be done. Eventually, someone charged me $1 for me to do their work, which I declined, but said he could copy my answers for a dollar. He took up the deal. Since then, every time a substitute teacher was in the room, this guy would pay a dollar to copy my answers. Other people copied them as well, but I'm not gonna haggle people over a dollar. There were a few incidents where people would also buy my answers in other classes, but it was mostly this specific class that I got paid in.
Edit: Teacher never really noticed. He was a great teacher, but somehow never noticed that on days he was out, me and like seven other people ended up with the same answers. Maybe he wanted us to work together, I don't know.
Me and my siblings would (and still sometimes do) draw and have one of our other siblings rate them and whoever had the most points (stars we drew in the corner of a page) would win it was actually really fun but obviously the judges were always byest for there siblings they liked better or just felt bad for the youngest
I remember that color paper I used to have a black, purple and red and I would get my pens and write letters to my friends
ah yea pokemon cards... wasnt into it but my friends, and my dad had a realy expensive copy machine that can print on thick paper, so i copyed some of my brothers card and just printed them to sell, even made some of my own creations and everyone was super hyped cuz im the only one who got super rar pokenmon card that no one else got haha, also tryed it with money, cuz it was an old machine it just printed them, but i wasnt brave enouth to spent them, still got an 50€ note from that time and it still looks pretty real to me like 18 years later
16:50 Story 17 is my favourite 😂
I remember 2 things back in highschool but it wasn't out of ordinary stuff though. The teacher for the ISS room sold snacks and few people knew about it. Principle eventually had her stop that. The other thing, this other guy and I refilled people's vape pods for a little money.
If you are vaping in school don't do it with others keep it to yourself and be aware of factors like smell, how much you blow out and what direction, easier to see smoke at certain light angles. Lol the other guy I mentioned he got caught one time cause he was completely unaware doing it in a classroom, in front of a window with light shining in. Not saying you should but if you decide to then just know.
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Not even that far back.
okay, to explain, in one episode of Ross's game dungeon, specifically the Go to Hell episode, Ross Scott told a story about how when he worked at a copy shop when he was in College, he and a work buddy drew up actual soul contracts with help from either a family member or law student, I forget which, and got some candy. The only way to get the candy was to sign a contract, and all in all, they collected about 20 souls between them iirc, just off of people who wanted something to snack on before/between/after classes. These were *college students* selling their souls for candy. The contract was legally binding too apparently.
With the cigarettes thing, I respect the hustle. Obviously, I don't approve of cigarettes and smoking, especially at that age but the hustle in general? I respect it
I had a friend who bought a pack of gum for 5 dollars. They were supper small squares that I personally didn't think people would buy, but I respect the hustle, and she made $32 dollar profit the first day.
A small scale one, and by that, I mean it involved 4 people, me and my sister, and a set of 2 twins. Twin1 tells my sister he likes me, and when I didn't agree, he paid his brother, Twin2, Halloween candy to shut down my laptop when I'm using it. It was annoying, but I can respect their hustle as well. And since the twins don't have 7th together, me and Twin2 made a deal that he's stop shutting down my laptop, and I would say he shut it down if his brother ever asked so he still get paid
There was a black market using ramen as the currency in my grade school. The person I remember with the best stuff was obviously Asian . Not sure what flavor of Asian she was. But she could get pretty much anything with just a little of it.
Ours was freaking JUNE BUGS. Yep.
Not really a black market, but I would sell doughnuts I bought for 50 cents a doughnut for a dollar each. Any doughnuts left over by the end of the day I'd just have for myself. I could almost always sell at least half or more so it kept paying for itself.
3:50 EITHER IM TRIPPING OR THATS THE MIDDLE SCHOOL I WENT TO.
I remember trading geedis merchandise for snack, items, money, and other stuff
"Children yearning for trade" is why capitalism will succeed? "No tangible value"? Welcome to subjective value, how capitalism says value works, as opposed to tangible value/real value/labor theory of value, which capitalism says is crap.
The first guys story was kinda wild ngl.
That first story 😂😂
10:28 i was gonna do this
My parents own a toystore (which i currently work at) in highschool back when fidget spinners were popular thing i asked my parents who sold them to give me some i ended up selling them for 5$s each i gave 2$s to my parents for each one sold but i also got some higher quality ones and there was this one asian kid who was born with a silver spoon (he was like the first person in our grade to get a debt card) anyways he bought from me alot sometimes he would buy my entire stock and give it to his friends he was a good guy and more importantly a good customer one of the rarer ones i sold to him for 30$s since he bought in bulk with 50$s xD
i remember when beyblades got banned form my school. same with yugioh cards. everything was fine with both til money was involved basically.
I had people pay me to worship my treasure map 🤷🏽♀️ got like 50$ I was ten
Suddenly i realised u only got 13k abos greetings from germany btw^^
thank you!
Nice vid
My friend Jim sold gum [still does it] that he made, he gave it for free for the first piece but charged £0.50 for a massive piece of gum. Edit:1 he dropped more flavours so ima check it out, all flavours are strawberry lime, strawberry and mango. Edit 2: forgot lime flavour
Am I wrong or isnt the fight club story an episoped on South Park?
So did kids say the n word and brandish their pass and then have to throw it away or??? I need more details
Early again woo
The title's wrong lol
I swear RUclips be trolling me...
Oh wowo
GUYS IM FINNALLY EARLY- (nice❤ video btw 😎👍)
N-word passes, like a physical object? I knew most of these were fictional, but Jesus Hornswaddling Christ that’s a really stupid, obvious lie.
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im early