You’re right. If you can make 200k being a lawyer or 140k begin a Union Electrician, why go down the gangster road?
The mafia in Sicily is still BRUTALLY powerful. Much more so than here or in the mainland.
And many towns are still poor. Quite a few have been sent from those towns to here, to make up for the shortage of reliable men.
This crop is smarter than Gotti. VERY low key. I dont think the FBI knows who’s in charge of some of the families here.
I did what I did when i was much younger, NEVER hurt anybody, but I had a vending machine route and you couldn’t own one without the ok of a family. Of course other families would try to move in on your spots and there would be sit downs and all kinds of garbage, and you’re right. Who wants all that hassle when you get older?
Work in an Air Conditioned Office and make good money from legal gangsters, the investment banks :)
It's funny, I learned that when I lived in North Jersey in the late '70s. The vending machines were a family operation. I'm not even Italian, and I got told that! Universal knowledge, everyone knew.
I wonder if the new blood feels differently about drugs. I wonder if they learned the lesson. Maybe they did.