Originally Posted by m2w
in italy most people enjoy mafia groups for power and respect more than money, being a member of mafia they become powerful and respected in the society instead to be a nobody like another
obviously you can also become very rich


Its almost true. The street members come from poor families and if can climb the ranks will remain a blue collar criminals while the sons of parents of the boss made the real money and stay in the society and made bussiness with legitimate bussiness men. An example: Raffaele Amato that helped to create the DiLauro clan was out dated by DiLauro'son Cosimo.Same things in the ndrangheta where a 5% of the members made the milions.