"Lumpenproletariat" is exactly the kind of idea an educated German theorist would come up with in the wreckage of the industrial revolution and it's ridiculous to try to carry that notion forward to the age of cell phones and heavily armed maoist prostitutes and if anyone can't understand that you should throw grass at them until they stop being dorks because they're too far gone to touch it themselves.
Like ffs read even one anthro text about black market and grey market economies and stop treating The Man's legal system like anything but a criminal organization.
What, you're just going to take a weekend class and learn how to make quiet running stealth submarines that can evade 21st century navies all by yourself? Better figure out how to get those drug runners on team, comrade. They hold vital technological knowledge and skills we badly need.