Organized crime is not what people do when they have rejected the american dream. It's the opposite. People like the lucases and the grivanos desperately believed in the American dream, but felt marginalized so took a temporary detour. There's even a wonderful phrase coined by the sociologist james o'kane for that temporary detour, the crooked ladder.

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