Crime show millionaires.

In many tv crime shows like HBO's True Detective, the villains are often drug dealers. We assume they have taken up this trade because it's so incredibly lucrative. Then why are the dealers always shown as bearded, slovenly, near derelicts who drive dusty pickup trucks? What are they doing with all that money? Why are they living in some crumby apartment complex when they can afford to stay at the best hotels? Why aren't they wearing thousand dollar suits instead of bib overalls? The answer is because crime shows are written by affluent, well-educated yuppies who have a fantasy about what the world of crime is like and that's the world they show to us. It's one in which everyone is violent, everyone swears, everyone drinks to excess, and no one, but no one, is educated.