Gomorra
Este increíble y fascinante relato real es un viaje al imperio empresarial y delictivo de la Camorra, que comienza y termina bajo el signo de las mercancías. Las mercancías «frescas», bajo las formas más variadas (videojuegos, relojes, ropa de marca) llegan al puerto de Nápoles, y para ser almacenadas y escondidas se sacan de los gigantescos contenedores e invaden antiguos palacetes, previamente vaciados por completo. Las mercancías muertas, procedentes de toda Italia y de media Europa, en forma de residuos químicos, restos tóxicos o fango, son vertidas abusivamente en los campos, donde envenenan, entre otros, a los mismos capos que erigen esas tierras sus fastuosas y absurdas mansiones. Esta es hoy la Camorra (o el «Sistema», ya que casi nadie usa la palabra «Camorra»): por un lado, una organización empresarial con impresionantes ramificaciones por todo el planeta y una zona oscura siempre más extensa donde cuesta distinguir cuánta riqueza es producto directamente de la sangre y cuánta de simples operaciones financieras, y por el otro, un fenómeno criminal profundamente influido por los medios de comunicación y la sociedad del espectáculo, cuyos dirigentes imitan la manera de vestir y de moverse de las estrellas del cine y de las figuras míticas, de los gángsters de Tarantino a las siniestras apariciones de El cuervo con Brandon Lee.
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- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
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Gomorra by Roberto Saviano
- Gomorrah (Gomorra), book by Roberto Saviano explains fashion brands business like this in detail (among others). Highly recommend, though sometimes quite depressing read.
- Not to mention that Italy is fast on the way to becoming - if not already there - a mafia state. Reading Roberto Saviano's Gomorra opened my eyes as to how machine-like in its efficiency and hydra-like in its resiliency organized crime in Italy is with numerous sectors of the Italian state under the direct control of the mafia [1].
Combined with the economic outlook, this doesn't bode well for the future.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/mafia-toxic-waste-and-a-d...
- I would like to shed some light on this "mafia expert".
Saviano is officially known in Italy to be a writer, way more than a journalist - actually he was completely unknown before his first book "Gomorra", which made him famous, and he admitted not to be "a journalist, (nor a reporter), ... but a writer" (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/24/mafia-autho...). I would add that in Italy he is pretty known to be a good show-man, even more than a writer.
- Check it again mate, it has nothing, and I said NOTHING, to do with sicilian mafia. Saviano's Gomorra narrates stories about "camorra", a criminal organization based in Campania, Naples' region. Both are criminal organizations, but are radically different from their origins to their criminal methodologies.
- I am not sure where are you from. I come from the area described in "Gomorra" by Saviano. We have rampant criminality and corruption. People get actually shouted around here.
Those are outside forces that will come and knock to your door as soon as your activity start to be profitable. People will ask you for money or favors or they will just make your life difficult just so they don't have to envy your success.
So, you are right, but you are also taking a superficial look at the problem. Of course you can start a company, but you will have to be much stronger and determinate and be able to deal with the fact that nobody, not even your family and friends, will support you.
