How did he make money?
union strike funds
>>223960839Writing about astonishing tales from the sea
>>223960839fell "ass backwards into money" every month. Throughout the series he's always got some scam, project, business venture, investment or gambling opportunity he focuses on that gives him a chunk of cash. Plus he has virtually no living expenses as Jerry provides everything for him and his apartment is likely rent controlled considering how long he's been in it.
>>223960839He's a jew so naturally he doesn't have to work.
>>223960894>he's always got some scam,modern Seinfeld would make him indian
>>223960895No he's not you fucking retard
Human trafficking
>>223960839His apartment was rent controlled, Jerry paid for his food and he worked gigs.
>>223960929This is canon lore
>>223960904His scams rarely (or possibly never) target individuals and generally exploit businesses or government loopholes so his exploits are not as noxious as Indian scams.
>>223960839He wrote a coffee table book about coffee tables.
>>223960895he is non jewish. Watch seinfeld you fucking pleb>>223960904he works gigs and is pretty harmless. He is never sitting in a call center manipulating the elderly out of their money
>>223960923the actor, Michael Richards is not, but the REAL Kramer is
>>223961045Cosmo Kramer isn't a strict 1:1 of Kenny Kramer. Kramer explicitly states he's not jewish in the series, such as when he's hosting the jewish singles mixer. Having said that for a guy who isn't jewish he spends time with a lot of jews.
Bob Sacamano always gives him tips on where to hustle money.
>>223961122He lives in Manhattan he doesnt really have a choice.
>>223961122if you want to be a hustler it helps to be in with them you never know when you need to ask jerry about his cousin the big lawyer or his other cousin the crooked accountant
>>223961208Touche.>>223961453Touche.
>>223960839Eating old man ass on the streets, son.He was a little light in his loafers if you know what I mean.
>>223961711A little zest in his back door gas tank?
>>223960839Kramer (who's based on a real person) was a type man who was common in New York. He'd get a cheap apartment, and sort of do "odd jobs" (like the street parking thing) and live rather frugally (leech off Jerry).
>>223960839He’s a fictional character. He exists because he is written.
>>223960839i feel like he might hold the patent on a couple of low-level items that provide a small amount of residual income. beyond that, he mostly makes side-cash through his schemes with Bob Sacamanno. I would assume the unit he lives in is rent-controlled because he's been there so long. He's probably only paying $400 a month in rent/utilities.
>>223960894Some minor crossover with another show confirmed it was a rent controlled apartment iirc. It's some other show I've never seen, guy has his old rent controlled bachelor pad rented out And his wife to be wants him to get rid of it. Reveal at the end it's Kramer's apartment
He made 18 grand by betting on that horse that loved the slop. Stuff like that probably happened to him all the time off screen.
>>223960839I never really watched Kramer, but doesn't this Kramer guy usually B-Line for the kitchen upon entering the apartment and start pouring a drink / bowl of food without so much as asking permission?He always gave off the impression he was kinda parasitically pretending to be their friend to get free shit, like a bad apartment neighbour nobody had the guts to tell him to "buzz off"
>>223962715>I never really watched Seinfeld*
>>223962715It happens like that IRL of course, but the 'Kramer' archetype isn't exactly a parasite. A parasite pretends to be friends to get free shit, Kramers really do become good friends with people to get free shit.
>>223961849did you know the sky is blue? crazy stuff, man.
>>223962715The backwards episode reveals that Jerry promised that food to him 20 years ago
>>223961009What kind of goyim name is Kosmo?
>>223961849you can just step off
>>223960839He received 20 dollars from the bank once because they failed to greet him.
>>223960839collects Bob Sacamano's welfare checks while he's at some psychiatric institution
>>223960839Letting dudes suck him off in the East Village
>>223962014They used to have special cheap apartments for artists and creative types writers etc. the dude who inspired the Kramer character lived in one.
>>223962165This he's luck maxed. In that same episode he also didnt get mugged because there was an undercover cop next to him, while george got kidnapped and robbed, jerry got stuck next to a naked guy, and elaine got stuck by a blackout.
