Where wages are low and peasant life is less comfortable, in Patti, Castroreale, Siracusa, and Trapani, there are no symptoms of mafia [activity], and public safety is the same as in the most peaceful towns of the kingdom.... By contrast, in Misilmeri and Parrinico, Monreale and Bagheria, where property is divided, where there is plenty of work for everyone, and the orange trees enrich landowners and growers alike—these are the typical sites of mafia influence.

DEFINE: Defines the condition for mafia activity as tied to economic opportunity and property, not poverty — prosperity creates protection rackets worth extorting.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 214