Mafia protection is sold to whoever can pay regardless of class

Evidence

Mafiosi, as we saw in Chapter 4, do not have an ideological distaste for workers, since workers can also be good customers. But since they respond to a person’s ability to pay, and since workers are on the average poorer than employers, mafiosi side more often with the latter. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 974

Categorization

• XREF: Directly confirms Gambetta’s core market model — mafiosi as sellers with no ideological biases, aligned by willingness-to-pay. This is the theoretical backbone the reader is testing against the novel; note it tracks Bonasera’s case where Corleone sides not with the poor.