Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin
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- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.86)
- Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information (similarity 0.84)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.83)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.83)
- Parasitic cheating thrives where trust is generalized from trustworthy settings (similarity 0.83)
- Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.82)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.82)
- Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.81)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.81)
- Societies built on mutual distrust can stabilize into enduring structures. (similarity 0.81)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.81)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.81)
- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.81)
- Illegality prevents mafia reputation from detaching from particular owners, blocking firm expansion (similarity 0.81)
- Trusting values depend crucially on the information each party holds (similarity 0.80)