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>>>>>>Don't eat the rat! Ship it to me. A politican here has suggestet to let the poor catch the rats and pay 1 EUR each!
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>>>>>Didn't you have a problem with your salary ?
>>>>>If so, breed rats. Sell about a 1000 a month - free of taxes ...
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>>>>Hm, I think 1k is not enough.
>>>>To the first, you need to be a legal poor. I'like to take extra money, not go to that level. So I have to share. I think it's easy work to carry the rat so I will give 10 cent (A man can carry enough rats to get a bottle of booze what is his main target)
>>>>To the second I will not do this work. Years of study and all the work to get my brain to programming? No way. I've choosen my way of life.
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>>>>The rats may breed in the backyard. The cages will be made out of wire fences, there are enough out there.
>>>>Then I have to get some food for the rats (need some other poor to sort the waiste bins. The rat carrier is addicted to booze so I need somebody more trustable - shouldn't poison my rats)
>>>>The stable does not need to be mucked up, the rain will rinse the waiste down the drain. (The backyard should have one, but this is Berlin so this should not be a problem)
>>>>Since this seems to be a simple idea I need a guard.
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>>>>Looks like a lot of work. Will not do on this scale.
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>>>>Agnes
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>>>>(^.~)
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>>>You're looking at this business idea the wrong way. You don't raise the rats. you set up a business and sell a franchise "Agnes rats" people pay you 10000 euros to get the benefit of your plan and marketing and administration skills. Also you sell them all the equipment at a "special" rate . And you apply for government support as you are stopping people being unemployed etc.
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>>>Vorsprung durch vermin. You can buy that slogan from me if you like.
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>>As a kid I looked at a business idea the wrong way. We used to hang about in the rough on a golf course and wait for the golfers to lose their balls. Then we'd "find" them and set off around the links trying to sell them 2nd hand to other golfers. It would take hours and we'd have to haggle.
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>>Years later someone said to me, why didn't we just charge the golfers a small fee for showing them where their balls had gone. DOH! It would have saved hours of roaming and negotiation, would have been immediately realisable, and any refusals of the golfers would have left us with sellable balls anyway.
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>Maybe still the wrong business model. You could try waiting till they hit the ball then immediately 'finding' it and flogging it on before they had a chance to get to it. That way they would soon be paying you NOT to 'find' it.....

But the flaw with that model is: 1) It was difficult to flog on anyway, as already stated. 2) Quite often they'd be golfing alone so quite a schlep to another T-off point to "quickly" sell on.

Besides, that would have been dishonest! :-)