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why not? why would the Corleone family go through so much trouble to live a criminal life, with all its dangers?

• funstuff007 4y ago
  do you extend this line of reasoning to all criminals whose forebears did not arrive on the Mayflower?
• shakow 4y ago
  Money.
• rufus_foreman 4y ago
  "To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. It meant power among people who had no power. It meant perks in a working-class neighborhood that had no privileges. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. I dreamed about being a wiseguy the way other kids dreamed about being movie stars or firemen or ballplayers. ... We walked in a room and the place stopped. Everyone knew who we were, and we were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all and it was all free." -- Henry Hill
  • ZeroGravitas 4y ago
    This seems to support both sides of the argument, particularly the central part: > It meant power among people who had no power. It meant perks in a working-class neighborhood that had no privileges. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. I dreamed about being a wiseguy the way other kids dreamed about being movie stars or firemen or ballplayers