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agree title is misleading. organized crime does not mean italian mafia, which is what this post is about. the Bratva for instance is structured completely different, which I won't go into here today. even the Italians in NYC I've met who are in the family and connected are structured completely differently. many of these families have moved to completely legit businesses and just keep the fear factor in place to secure large city / gvt contracts. pay scale is on a much different scale than this.

not saying the post was inaccurate at all, but it is only describing about 5% of criminal enterprise.



> "many of these families have moved to completely legit businesses and just keep the fear factor in place to secure large city / gvt contracts."

Protip: If your business model relies on "fear factor" you may have failed to satisfy the "completely legit business" specification.


I agree.

Note that this reasoning can also be applied to what we would think of as “normal” companies. What does this say about them?


The market is not rational?




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