Congrats on finally getting made after years of begging, hard work, getting shot and even surviving a fake execution

Unironically what do they actually do with all the money they collect? Where does it go to? What do they use it for?

They all even have legitimate fronts that make them regular money and they seem to be living from that and quite modestly too. So why even have a criminal enterprise if noone is really profiting from it?!

If Paulie got whacked early on would things have gone differently?

I thought he gave Tony 10% of his total, same as Chris gives to him.

they don’t know any other way to live and would otherwise be incompatible with normal life and a normal job as is repeatedly touched upon in the series

I thought he gave Tony 10% of his total above a minimum, same as Chris gives to him.

In reality the Jersey Mob was a underfunded operation and no NJ Mob Boss lived like Tony.

Them being incompatible with normal life is a result of their choices, not the cause of it.
Their lifestyle basically boxes them into a certain type of behavior permanently.

In reality no one would hide a gun in a fish either.
It's not supposed to be realistic

they can't even spend it properly because they always owe someone money and need clean bills to do so. The daughter of Chin gigante once gave an interview and basically explained that he lived a boring, shitty and lonely life to stay in his position.

Tony didn't live some great life, his neighbor was a dentist

no NJ Mob Boss lived like Tony.

But the NJ Boss who Tony was sort of based on had an IRL house that was much nicer than Tony's house in the show

the guy lives a decent middle class family life except he also has to occasionally murder people and deal with threats of murder himself. I can see why they wanted AJ to just go to school and not be a loser, he could have the same life just doing some boring 9-5 job.

They absolutely wouldn't kill him, were you not paying attention to the fucking show?
He was made, so even if he failed every week, he would just keep getting deeper and deeper in debt to the boss
Eventually, he's in so deep that they basically just use him as a patsy, or as someone to do suicide runs.
They'll make him take the fall for a crime, or make him do something that needs to be done but is risky.

But the reality is that he's Tony's favorite nephew so they would just keep him around and treat him like shit, which is actually what happened eventually. I mean there is literally a moment where Chrissy shows up in a public place, and points a gun at him.
You can't do shit like that to a boss and not get put down.
Granted that it was only because of Tony B that Tony S stayed his hand, but the fact that he even made the decision to spare him at all (let alone listen to Tony B's reasoning) really shows that Chrissy was just their for nepotistic purposes.

Also it really underscores that Tony was a shit leader, as him doing these things eventually weakened the entire crew's faith in his ability to lead.
He straight up tells Carlo

Fuck that honor and loyalty shit

and then later Carlo rats on him to save his son's own skin.

That was not a middle class family in the early to mid 00's

That was lower-upper class
That's the point of him having a neighbor who is a successful doctor, and having Melfi be one of said doctor's "dinner party friends".

Back then being someone doing a profession that needed a lot of schooling was synonymous with making good money.
That's why they used to tell kids that they should "go to school so you can become a Doctor or a Lawyer"
But nowadays they tell people to study STEM so they can do their part to contribute to the mass extinction that humanity is praying for but too cowardly to give themselves

Paulie was a good soldier and appeared to be a good earner, but he was way out of line a bunch of times, picking up some money from that Russian. Telling Johnny Sack about Tony's real estate business. And he was often a good leader to Chris, but he also had clear issues with Christopher being favored by Tony

got a house worth a 1.2 million

Do eurofags think that’s a lot? Any 40 year old manager can get a mortgage on that.

Paulie was a shit earner — he didn't have his own racket, the only way he could earn was through taking scores and doing shakedowns that constantly went sideways.

Oh yeah those murderers? Those psychopaths? Yeah they could totally leave the mob life and work a normal job. I believe they can change. I truly do.

This.
How Vito can't even do a morning of honest work doing construction, after he disappeared being spotted in that gay bar.

Europoors live in dwellings called flats and their neighbors are muslims. They're so poor they can't wait in line for "free" health without dying.

the sad thing about this post is I can't make any arguments against it. except my neighbours are black, not muslims.

American pretending that his country isn't full of violent niggers

Never under estimate anyone and I mean anyone.

We're allowed to put them in cages

every single of your big cities are called "cages"?

He built Beansie's ramp. But I guess that was before his character really took shape.

I think those are called concrete jungles but they don't observe sharia law

I think I'm realizing the reason we see so many Italian mob movies is to downplay the Jewish influence on the whole thing. That and they're fun I guess

Probably because Ritchie mentioned it would go up Beansie's ass.

muh Jewish influence

There have been numerous popular movies and TV shows about Jewish involvement in the early organized crime days in the US. That's immaterial to the fact that the La Cosa Nostra in the US was created by Salvatore Maranzano who brought it down directly from the Grand Lodge of Sicily, that's what the whole Mustache Pete war was really about, not the historical fiction that gets promoted to this day. Jews had their own mobs going, and they were out of organized crime by the mid 1940s because they all went into entertainment, high-profile finance, law and politics.

Nothing, really. You spend most of it just keeping your position in the hierarchy. My grandpa was in Vegas back when it was just getting started and was starting to get in pretty deep with the mob there and had some interesting stories about his time. What he came away with was that everyone at the top were borderline retards with little to no self control. Fear and momentum kept people in line for the most part. For everything else, you paid for it. The projection of power is more important than actually having it and the best way to do that is throwing cash around and roughing up people you know won't fight back.

the mob was run by Jews in LA in the 1950s

but blame Italians

why are Jews like this?

Wasn't aware of this, thanks

You guys know this is how perfectly legal capitalism gas always worked right?

Daily hours of telepropaganda of rape, cruelty, and immorality poisons the souls of western youth and contributes to rising crime in capitalist countries

lol
If anything it's the opposite. Retards sit at home and live out their criminal fantasies through media instead of doing so on the street.
Also, why does that Hollywood director look like an antisemitic caricature?

they were out of organized crime by the mid 1940s

Are you retarded? Nobody was talking about LA here, and Mickey Cohen's gang wasn't a part of the Mafia, do you understand what the word "mob" actually means?

Name a post-1940s significant Jewish crime boss that's not Mickey Cohen.

Netanyahu

What Family is he in charge of?
The Gambino's?

Herbert Sperling

They were based on the Demeos, you fucking retard.

Paul Wolfowitz

He wasn't the boss of anything, just a drug dealer who was kicking up to Chin and the Genovese Family

Demeos

What's it like being so retarded?

they were based on different stories from bunch of families

He was based tho
youtube.com/watch?v=_x1W9_5TULA

why even have a criminal enterprise to live modestly

they really answer this question properly with the tony B storyline. there is a moment after he hangs out all night playing cards and fucking around basically that they drop him off in the wee hours of the morning in front of his shitty drycleaning job, paulie says he's gonna go eat and sleep for 10 hours and you can see in Tony B's face that it's like the last day of being in a foreign country on vacation before you have to go home, there's this sense of dread and reluctance and he's probably thinking "I wish I could just continue this party forever"

even if they aren't getting filthy rich they at least don't have to deal with the mundane aspects of being a regular person. even in the mob life christopher mentions that he can barely take "the regularness of life", imagine if he had to go work in an office. he sends the person in the world who loved him unconditionally to be murdered like an animal when he is faced with the prospect of living a normal life.

mooks to made guys

made guys to capos

capos to the boss

Everybody pays money up a level. Paulies payment to Tony was more than the $6000 Chrissy gave him.

Strictly organized crime then Mogilevich, Evsei, Balagula, Nayfeld.
If we count oligarchs, some of which are alleged to have murdered people over oil money then Khodorkovsky, Fridman, Khan, Malkin, Vinogradov, Gusinsky, Aven, Berezovsky, Kolomoyskyi, Rabinovich among others.

Paulie gave Chris that sports book before gambling became legal everywhere like it is now
If Chris wasn't retarded he could have made a fortune from that and 6k a month would have only been a small fraction of the profits like Paulie said

I don't give a shit about Russia/USSR we're talking about America here pal

he's giving away his main business operation, so why would he do so for nothing? He's doing it in exchange for a % of the income, in which he also has to give a % to his boss (Tony).

Same thing with Vito. Fag would literally rather go back to where hundreds of people are actively trying to kill him than to work one (1) shift as a handyman.

Then read the first four names.