Carlos Slim is a Mexican billionaire worth over $70 billion. He is the largest shareholder in publicly traded shares of The New York Times. He also is known to have significant ties to the drug cartels in Mexico.

One reason people sell drugs is to be able to make ends meet. I asked a few of them in the eighties why the sold the stuff and the answer was quite mathematical: Rent+groceries+insurance+child-care+car upkeep>wages-taxes. There are some issues in society that are being ignored.