Mafia outsiders must pay a share while insiders take one

Evidence

Not being a member you gotta get permission. Anything you do, they give you a share, you don’t give them a share” (Abadinsky 1983: 119). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 1026

Categorization

• XREF: The membership line as a protection/rent boundary: the share-asymmetric rule is precisely the protection tax Gambetta models — insiders are residual claimants, outsiders pay tribute. Strong evidence for the reader’s Gambetta frame.
• SEED: The turning direction of the share (‘they give you, you don’t give them’) is a crisp synecdoche for the whole protection racket — a usable epigraph for an essay on rent extraction.