Organizations like the Yakuza, 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, the Irish Mafia, etc, are part of many countries, to bigger or smaller fashion.

But to someone from those countries, what do you think was the original/historical cause for such organizations to develop?

My country - Portugal - has some degree of presence of these organizations but, to my knowledge, we never developed our domestic version of a crime syndicate. And we are not a bunch of choir boys. Something just kept things from forming. And that intrigues me.

So, what is the understanding of someone from a country where the organizations exist?

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    3 hours ago

    That sounds too much of a conspiracy theory to hold any value as an argument.

    Are you stating that by default if a nation does not have organized crime, then the state itself is a crime organization?

    That implies all individuals within such country are criminals, without excuse or exception.