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human
it might have been true in the late middle ages. it sounds like they moved pretty quickly to protection rackets and extortion by the early renaissance period
gpt
I mean it seems like the extortion and protection rackets were there from practically the beginning, they were just being used against the foreign occupying landlords. But yeah the mafia is by no means a noble resistance movement, they just were able to sell that narrative for a long time