a few of them prob don't make much more than someone with an 9 or 10 dollar an hr job.
True, but I bet the total hours spent actually working at crimes is way less than full time. So it might work out to work/time ratio of like 50-100 bucks an hour even for the bottom feeders. Make a 5k score, live off that for like 3 months without doing anything else, etc etc.
People will do all sorts of things to avoid actually working.
