I assume you’re being hyperbolic. There’s no world where gambling is more likely to pay the bills than working, even if the value proposition of working is so bad right now. Gambling is always worse.

I did as well, 10 years ago ish. Spent many a morning and evening jogging along that path. Man I miss Tucson. Bear down!

Is that Tucson???

You romanticizing a situation that doesn’t deserve it. Skilled or not- he hurt people for money. He’s not a Robin Hood fighting the evil corporatists or government.

This kid didn’t hack into school systems to change grades- he was extorting millions of dollars from large and small companies to buy drugs and jewelry. I think you are missing the gravity of what he did.