I know it's old, don't hit me. Think it was recently mentioned again somewhere(?) how they afford stuff, but this was the most recent thread I could find on the topic.
Just wanted to add that this must be part of it.
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Researchers from Arizona State University analyzed sewage sludge—the stuff left behind after treating raw sewage—with a mass spectrometer, and found that a city of a million people gives out $13 million worth of metal annually—and $2.6 million of it is silver and gold.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business...sewers/384749/
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NYC is a city of how many millions? With help from Donnie's ingenuity to set up a way to collect it (and avoiding doing a lot of really gross panning by hand), these guys are secretly richer than we know.
Clean it up, melt it down in the case of small fragments, then put on a disguise to go pawn it...
