Växẍ Säbbäth on Nostr: mattress stores move physical product, though, which requires inventory management ...

mattress stores move physical product, though, which requires inventory management which is visible at multiple levels

as long as you remember the ancient wisdom that "pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered", though, and don't generate numbers that would require adjustments to the carwash PLC to account for relativistic velocities, the only way somebody could disprove that you were using it as a money laundry is continuous surveillance to prove that no cars were going through it

of course, that's simple: you simply make an actual car wash, and generally, there's always at least a couple cars to go through it - "see? it's legit"

and these days, there's all kinds of neat financialization tricks: you can sell future carwash tickets and book the income immediately, then simply say "oh well I guess they never returned to use them in the year they had to redeem them", boom, instant money laundry

you can couple this on the backend with buttcoin or anonymous-currency transactions; for people who are not in the immediate geographic vicinity, the likelihood that you will need to produce an actual car wash for them is near zero, so you can print as many of those tickets as you want (although that does suggest the possibility of a highly technical short-squeeze that would be hilarious, even if it would get your head sawed off by a cartel sicario for attempting it)

car washes are relatively cheap to set up - you don't need high-quality space, you don't need too much high-tech stuff, and you don't need a lot of actual workers (and in some cases, you don't need any at all)

you need access to water, of course; I would expect, for scams, for this to be skewed heavily to places where water is extremely cheap and plentiful (and there is some evidence that's the case), though it will work just about anywhere (simply tweak the prices to moderate your throughput, which makes your money-laundering machine even simpler)

and finally, in at least some places, this gives you an "industrial waste stream", which provides you the ability to dispose of certain things (JESSE, WE NEED TO COOK); the business model also allows random cars to come through, which affords you the opportunity to move nearly anything via mules if you have your shit together (block front and rear entrances when car is in carwash gauntlet, place shit in vehicle, finish sending car through)

all in all, life imitates art