Ivan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:34 pm
Wiseguy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:00 am
The Mafia will be even more of a New York phenomenon than it already is.
Definitely. I think it will be pretty much gone everywhere else except
maybe Philly. Wiseguy I know you're as interested in the coming Demographic Winter as I am... I'm curious as to what you specifically think of my projection at the beginning of the thread. Here 'tis again:
Italian leadership and capable guys will be few in number and will be old men born between 1960 and 1985. Very few Italians under that age. Actual rackets run by Albanians and whatnot working for old Italians. NY Families half or less the size and influence they are now in terms of manpower/revenue/influence/etc. Ratio of associates to made guys much higher than now. Structure/hierarchy of NY families breaking down and becoming more of a horizontal network than a top-down hierarchy.
I tend to agree with most of it.
You will be able to count the living members outside the Northeast corridor on two hands. Literally.
The New Jersey and New England families will be down to a dozen or less living members each. Philadelphia only slightly more. No more cohesive hierarchy for any of them. Each essentially a group of individual members, most of which inactive.
The New York metro area will be the only place where there will really still be the Mafia (which is more the case now than many realize). But that will be due more to the collective amount of living members in the region than any single family. There will still be five families but they'll all be half the size they are now.
The LCN will be more of a "legitimate" phenomenon, with more members essentially being legitimate or engaging in various forms of business racketeering from within ostensibly legitimate businesses.
The reason I say this isn't just legalization. I don't know how much others have considered it but there is the subject of cash. The LCN and other organized crime groups have been cash businesses for generations. But if the time comes when cash is no longer used in society, at least the way it is now, that could have major implications for them.