Contractors pay mafia dues without understanding the specific service purchased.

Evidence

The OCTF also found that “sometimes contractors claim not to know exactly why they pay; experience tells them that payoffs are necessary to assure that ‘things run smoothly’” (1988: 17). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 574

Categorization

• XREF: Matches Merton’s and Gambetta’s point that protection demand can be habitual and underspecified; connects to reader’s notes on legitimacy formation in private enforcement.