I'm not sure how to articulate it, but I feel like this article minimizes the violence, carnage, and beastly suffering inherently connected to organized criminality in its zeal to make a point about corruption and venality in our politics and economy. Maybe there are CEOs that behaved more savagely than the writer's bookie grandfather, but how many CEOs are there in the US that behave more savagely than El Chapo or Pablo Escobar? How many companies in the US are there that execute people by burning tires on them or force students to fight to the death for amusement before they are buried in shallow graves? There's something distasteful about papering over the immense human misery caused even today by organized crime to make a trite comparison to the decay in America's public institutions. While certainly not ideal, I would certainly prefer to live in a state controlled by Mitch McConnell or Jeff Bezos than one controlled by John Gotti or Whitey Bulger and the comparison being made, that those groups are not that much different from another, I find extremely repugnant.