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Ironic to hear Stringer saying this considering he was in fact, enrolled in college and looking to ultimately legitimize his way out of the drug trade. The fact is most drug dealers know that death and jail are the only end games to what they do. Stringer thought he... show more
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Stringer’s biggest mistake was believing he could outgrow the rules of the world he came from. His intelligence helped him climb, but his arrogance ultimately became his weakness.

Yeah that clip hits different when you remember he was taking those business classes.

Stringer’s tragedy is that he understood the economics of the game better than almost anyone, but never accepted that the game also had its own unwritten constitution. Avon lived inside that constitution. Stringer kept trying to rewrite it.

Stringer quoted the rules of the game while secretly trying to leave it.

Stringer could’ve left the game relatively unscathed. Avon as well. Stringer’s problem was trying to be two completely different people at the same time…and also arrogance/naivety. Imagine if Avon was as money hungry as Stringer…they may have ended up in a better situation.
