Victoria likely estimated the chance of bad outcome for her actions is low enough that it's worth the risk. This is the same thing people do when they choose to engage in activities which have potential, but low enough (for them) risk of things going awry.
People are complaining how Victoria wasn't thinking how her actions would potentially affect Edwin's life, but you could also say that Edwin isn't exactly thinking how his entanglement with hardcore criminals could affect Victoria, should he and his business pals have a fallout, or if some federal force instead of local police got involved. Of course, Edwin is the MC and the player's avatar so his shit can't possibly stink, but, you know.
Why do you assume that just because I think Victoria's not considering the consenquences of her actions stupid I wouldn't think that Edwin's choice of working at the Club without considering future consequences is stupid as well? My answer to both is yes, btw.
But let's be fair and play a bit of devil's advocate for both of them:
In Edwin's case, he only got the offer and managed to get the job due to 2 major reasons. The first one was due to nepotism since both an owner and another worker there personally knew him. The second one was because the club was in dire necessity of a last minute addition due to the "disapperance" of one of their workers so they
needed an extra pair of hands (or extra dick in this case xD). It also helped that like a shark smelling blood in the water as soon as Kathy found out about Edwin's mum past she wanted him in no matter what despite her initial brief dissaproval of him after he met with her and August for the first time.
Edwin also was pretty much in the dark about the people he was working with due to again nepotism and was blindsided by that. He might have thought:" Well, my former physics mentor and my only friend work there so it can't be that shady of place right? ".
In Vicky's case, she got dealt a very bad hand in life (be it by chance, fate, god or wathever) when her husband died prematurely
and having to raise a kid alone that was maybe
more than a bit out there. But, she had options, as people said she could've sold the house and started over someplace else. She herself has been considering selling the house now as she told Edwin this update, in the past she convinced herself she couldn't have done that because it would've damaged him more but I believe it was more mere pride than her thinking about the ramificiations that starting over could do to her son after all he was still very young.
In the end it comes down to every players worldview and life experiences that will dictate how they feel about certain actions of each character. To you, Victorias choices where not stupid and she considered the possible risks enough,
that's fair.
To me however, she didn't consider the risk/consequences that much if at all and she acted more on impulse and is now paying the price for that,
that's also fair.
Anyways, this will be my final comment on the topic since I don't want to swamp the thread over a discussion in which probably neither of us is gonna change their mind on the subject. So have a good one!