The lit plan vs. the gigachad plan.
Good neighborhood with a couple of low to mid-range businesses. Not too much cash flow but still a healthy amount. You are a local maybe, with a bunch of no-good low-life friends who want to make a quick buck. The easier it is the better. A toxic affliction for power and authority fuelling all your motives is the cherry on top.
A perfect recipe to make bank.
Since you come up with the idea you are in a prime position for becoming the shotcaller. Insert Maslow's theory into play and voila, you have a couple of sheepeles following your lead. Now you have the power of numbers on your side. Anybody challenging your authority among the group of seed-spitting friends with whom you shared your idea is most probably acting as a lone wolf.
Keep up the act of leader and the anarchists among your group are now oppressed by sheer numbers and forced to play along with your guidelines.
IF the neighborhood is considerably safe and friendly you will have to put in some foundation work. Make a small part of your group walk around and visit each business but not do any actual business. Make some noise, give some dangerous looks at the workers, be dirty and greasy. Automatically tensions rise but not enough to take any action.
A few days go by and then you take action. The dirty greasy boys causing a ruckus in the businesses are publicly taken care of. Slandered, disciplined, and overpowered physically. They are also given a firm warning to stay away from the businesses. In return for courageously standing up to the problematic folks, the businesses are happy to pay you a weekly fee to keep the businesses problem-free. It also doubles as a goodwill gesture from the locals.
Fast forward a few moon cycles, fees for peace increase. With the previous lump sum, you were able to categorize your lowlife friend circle into different positions. Lookouts, collectors, sweet talkers, recruiters, accountant, and muscle. Muscle needs to be updated. From fists to sticks to machetes to guns. Now you are both the virus and the antivirus.
Any business that refuses protection endures heavy product losses and temporary closure for repair and renovation. Depending on the severity of refusal and failure of payment, businesses will be handed over to you. Muscle comes useful there. And also to keep other idiots from taking a slice from your business model. Depending on the political situation, the real authorities can be either blinded or silenced.
Business status: LIT!!
Enter gigachad mode.
The good neighborhood that you love so much has a new influx of trade business. All businesses have needs to be fulfilled. The neighborhood also has a rising need for jobs to put the low-life seed-spitting folks somewhere in the economic cycle. The neighborhood has a healthy amount of low to high range businesses, with good cash flow but not enough to provide jobs to all. You come up with a symbiotic solution.
If the neighborhood has a history of troublemakers then good. If not, propaganda and fearmongering is an easy task when the audience loves their business way too much. Hell, most of them won't even need any fearmongering and propaganda.
You head to the Department of Registration and pay a lousy 50-100 bucks to enroll a business. Let's call it Giant Idiots With Batons Security Services. GIWBSS for short. Depending on your country's requirements you may or may not stick the header of your company on your bedrest and call it your office.
You now head to all the businesses and give them your visitation cards. If your local banks are friendly enough they'll spare you a starter loan. A small post on the internet will hire enough people to get the ball rolling. The businesses now trust GWIBSS with their daily income to be taken in and out of their stores. In return, they pay GIWBSS a small fee for the protection. GIWBSS also provides an extra service where goons within stores are taken care of at the press of a button. You can hire on-station security for an added fee.
With the monthly income, you can hire muscle, accountant, legal weapons, vehicles, strategists, security tech and more. With a good reputation, you have also gained a profitable liaison with the local banks and treasury attached to the local businesses. You pay a few legal taxes here and there, insurance premiums, wages, and make use of a few shell companies if the requirement comes up.
Just a tiny bit more expensive than the lit plan, but more legal, reputable, expandable and profitable in the longer run. Giant idiots with batons walk in, take the money, walk out, make the delivery. Ya'll get paid for a job well done.
Business status: GIGACHAD!!
This is a result of hanging out with an ex-security service employee and being obsessed with Dogs of Berlin. Obviously, please don't turn into the leader of the LIT plan after reading this post. Also, I might be talking out of my giant hide.
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