Comment by Prinzinc on The Relaxed Harem Life of an Around 30 Magician ~A Black Company Slave Living Freely in Another World~ - Chapter 2.3

@Prinzinc Typical Japanese Beta male MC what do you expect.

@Julian Monk The most powerful man on two planets is still just a doormat in both.

@Prinzinc Unlike other world jumper in other manga this one is more realist, there is no way in he** in the modern world that selling metal like gold and silver work. Most gold is somewhat tracked especially gold ingot since the overall rarity make its price and there is no way the police wouldnt question and arest a random guy that keeps selling gold from nowhere without access to mines. They for sure would assume a shady buisness money laundering

@William He can teleport, so minimally he could transport things around Earth at high speed.  I can think of dozens of extremely high paying jobs he could have on Earth that don't involve life-sucking work.  Also, he could mine gold himself on Earth using magic from the Bering Sea or whatever.  He could take bounties for people avoiding the law and use magic to find them.  He could be a private detective, an investigator, he could find and state an oil claim using magic detection, look through scratch-off tickets to find winners, etc...

There is simply no reason to slowly die working for that black company when you are the strongest man in two worlds.

@Prinzinc It's an escape fantasy for losers and edgy teens. Author is trying to accomidate exactly the people who are like MC or their school age copy.

A lot harder to launder money if you don't have a least one legitimate source of income. The rest can be leveraged gains, but gotta have a basic job at least.

@jihad joe That only matters if you can't instantly teleport anywhere on the world and between worlds.  For people who can do that, most of the issues relating to taxes and income sourcing aren't really an issue.  Also, the consequences if caught aren't much of an issue either.

@jihad joe

Take a bank loan, open a store be it online or physical. Provide services or sell stuff and lounder that money through that business. (By creating fake clients or units sold). It's not that hard, as long as you don't do criminal stuff. Most money laundering operations go under not because something was found wrong with the operation but because that business was associated with illegal PERSON and police start to investigate with the tax bureau.

ANd with his powers? He doesn't need do much to create an operation to launder the money or make money.

@Mr.Toilet I mean, it's simplier than that even.  Open numbered bank accounts in tax-free havens and connect local banks in each country to those numbered accounts through a foundation, trust, or island incorporation.  Hire a law firm out of some non-extradition country like the UAE to sit on the board and then spend 30 minutes out of each week teleporting a few thousand shipping containers between the USA, China, and the UK.  Even if your shell company gets shut down, you'll have made billions in revenue that can't be locked down and can't be traced.  Since you aren't operating any ports, your shipping methods can't be traced and thus your goods can't be confiscated for violating any laws.

It would really just take longer to set this whole thing up than it would to make money doing it later.  Once it's setup, you'd be making billions each month as long as it continues to operate.  Honestly, if you got into the business of shipping lumber, diamonds, oil or gold you could make all of this money faster but you'd probably pi** off people a lot faster than just operating a mysterious shipping company.

For reference, shipping a single 20ft shipping container costs around $5k (depending on where it is going up to $10k).  A large cargo vessel can move about 20k shipping containers.  That means that the MC could make around $100 million for each cargo "run" he makes.

@Mr.Toilet Even if the MC wanted to keep a low profile but also wanted to make money, he could offer next day air shipping to anywhere in the world for packages and cargo. The MC could then open a small business storefront in a city somewhere and teleport goods around the world while only working a few hours per week (as long as he hired someone to man the store in his place to accept drop offs). He could easily make $50-100k per month working a few hours per week and pay taxes on that income. If anyone asks, he can just BS his way through explaining it and since there isn't anything criminal about his methods, he wouldn't have much to worry about.

If the MC didn't care about the morality of it, he could also steal oil, gold, jewelry and weapons from evil countries, corporations or people. He could teleport into vaults and take all of their gold, then melt it down and sell it through a gold exchange in a country that doesn't care like Brazil, deposit the money into a numbered account, buy crypto with it and then convert the crypto to your currency of choice while paying taxes on it to make it legitimate looking.  In the end, it would be effectively impossible to prove that the MC did anything wrong because you wouldn't be able to trace it back far enough.

I mean, you could even offer to sell information or technology. Image how much the USA would pay for a fully working, fully modern Russian tank, stealth fighter, helicopter, etc? How much would South Korea pay for a North Korean tactical map?  How much would Ukraine pay for you to capture and deliver Putin to them? How much would a company pay for absolute proof that another company has copied their intellectual property without permission?  You could create a business with cut-outs hired by law firms to prevent revealing yourself and still make tons of money easily while also satisfying yourself morally.