Organizations like the Yakuza, 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, the Irish Mafia, etc, are part of many countries, to bigger or smaller fashion.
But to someone from those countries, what do you think was the original/historical cause for such organizations to develop?
My country - Portugal - has some degree of presence of these organizations but, to my knowledge, we never developed our domestic version of a crime syndicate. And we are not a bunch of choir boys. Something just kept things from forming. And that intrigues me.
So, what is the understanding of someone from a country where the organizations exist?
You know, forget about just wars, or moral vs. legal.
This was a question about mafias. Literal mafias, and I think you know the difference. By trying to force this to be another US political thread, you’ve become whatever the opposite of a contrarian is, and that’s worse. Like, a circlejerker, or something.
Lots of us aren’t even American! Maybe we don’t care about what’s going on in your country. (I mean, in general we do, but damn)