The boss is only taking a percentage of your illegal earnings. If you're really good at running your rackets and your rackets make more money than the boss's rackets then you're gonna make more than him, even with his skim off your profits. It seems like it would happen all the time any time someone discovers a really lucrative racket.


A good boss wants his captains and soldiers to bring in as much money as they can for themselves, because that's more into his kick. But I'm sure they keep a watchful eye, because when you're making that much money the other families are going to show interest in what you got going on too.