The mob was always spkit in two like the Gambinos under Carlo that had two underbosses: Dellacroce for the blue collar crimes and Castellano for the white collar crimes.
Today only the desperates want to joint the mob and only because have no other possibiliies. Now the big families have something in the docks or unions but nothing compared to the 1980s.
Now onlycthe street guys was inducted and only few if them have the capacità to run a white collar racket.
I dont said that have to fight but the numbers are useful to impress the street gangs.
The real mafia is white collar not street gangs, freemasons!!
The real mafia born as the armed wing of the landowners in the 19th century and in the cities they engaged in gambling, prostitution and asking for protection money.
They made the leap in quality in the 50s when with the economic boom in Italy they managed to invest money in construction (the famous plunder of Palermo) but their main source of income has always been drug trafficking. For the American mafia it has always been the same thing, of course they had the unions, the control of the ports and the construction but most of the family members were involved in blue collar crimes because ahven't the skill to run a white collar scheme.
