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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandage_in_Southern_Italy_after_1861
TIL the mafia ultimately has its roots in Ferdinand I’s horrendous mismanagement of the economy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the Kingdom of Italy’s subsequent failure to make anything better after its conquest of southern Italy
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Makes sense. I mean, most people don’t turn to crime when they don’t feel as though the local economy has failed and displaced them