Mobs and Mob Families Have a Feudal Structure

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Mobs and mob families have a kind of feudal structure where, you know, the merchants are like the captains who have to kick back to the dons or the cafors. And there's always this pressure to just break free of the system. That stripping away of the sacred that was brought on by the power of an exchange economy is what we're fighting for.

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