[k310]

Not that I know the details, but wasn't it easier to join the Mafia? Just the names and addresses of your folks in the old country (as "collateral")

The analogy is kind of striking, when you think about it.

[hulitu]

> The analogy is kind of striking, when you think about it.

It's an old one:

"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta Gettin' voted into the White House Everything lookin' good to the people of the world But the Mafia family is my boss "

Getto Boys, Office Space soundtrack

[k310]

Henry Hill:

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking.

If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.

They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Goodfellas

[zappb]

Gotta be born into it.

[k310]

What about Henry Hill? (Goodfellas)

Probably applies to “made men”

And that’s no guarantee. Look at Billy Batts.