{"id":11597,"date":"2014-10-20T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2014-10-19T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:40:40","slug":"the-economics-of-the-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-the-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of The Mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/102014_0338_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roberto Saviano wrote about the economics of the mob in Italy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New joiners earn as little as $2,500 a month.<\/li>\n<li>Income growth is rapid though. Becoming the boss&#8217;s right hand man could make you $38,000 a month, and becoming second-in-command gets you $130,000 a month.<\/li>\n<li>The groups offer insurance. Stipends go up if an individual has a disabled child.<\/li>\n<li>If members are killed, then the family can choose to receive a lump sum of up to $260,000 or a monthly payment.<\/li>\n<li>Hits aren&#8217;t particularly profitable. Murder bonuses begin at $2,600, and the killer is forced to relocate.<\/li>\n<li>The mafia considers robbery and prostitution to be dishonourable so doesn&#8217;t really engage in it. It will take a percentage of profits from others engaged in the business though.<\/li>\n<li>All in all the life isn&#8217;t particularly glamorous. Members are forced to hide their riches, live in tiny underground bunkers, and constantly worry about the lives of their loved ones.<\/li>\n<li>People do it more for the benefits that are on offer, than the glamorous lifestyle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about how the mob operates, why one individual was stricken that his jail sentence was only 8 years, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/organized-crime-pays-0000477-v21n10?curator=MediaREDEF\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/organized-crime-pays-0000477-v21n10?curator=MediaREDEF\">Vice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/10\/saturday-assorted-links-4.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29&amp;utm_content=Netvibes\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Saviano wrote about the economics of the mob in Italy: New joiners earn as little as $2,500 a month. Income growth is rapid though. Becoming the boss&#8217;s right hand man could make you $38,000 a month, and becoming second-in-command gets you $130,000 a month. The groups offer insurance. Stipends go up if an individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/102014_0338_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11600,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}