That’s an excellent comparison you just made. It’s very appropriate to compare American crime families to poor African people.
So in answer to your question what are other people in the community doing to feed their families? They are immigrating to other countries, their prostituting themselves, they’re working their fingers to the bone in sweatshops and agricultural fields likely owned by a company that’s not even based in their home country, they’re walking around barefoot and gold mines or diamond mines or dismantling toxic electronic waste by hand, they’re working for druglords are warlords in their area, Or they’re not doing anything at all for money because they’re too busy trying to find water, I could go on and on. And the people that aren’t doing any combination of these things? They’re starving.
LOL! Mafia hit men are sociopaths with no trepidation against violating fundamental rules of human decency.