This is an important point. The overwhelming ways all these guys made money were ways that only a bunch of teenagers and guys on their 20’s would pull off. They were violent, brainless, and very risky crimes; mostly robbing drug dealers and pulling off home invasions. I highly doubt most of them would of been able to earn in their 30’s. They did exactly what the bloods and crips do. And just like the crips and bloods, they all get arrested and all do heavy prison time where over half of them flip.
True, but I think many of the early mob guys came up the same way, with different violent crimes instead of drug dealer robberies and home invasions, Many had armed records for stick ups, or it seems like they did. The one big, big difference is that many of these modern era ((1970's-today) grew up better off financially and went into crime anyway. That would bolster your point on the Goodfellas theory.
