I'll start by apoligizing if this has been asked before, but I just watched this movie last night and one thing that I didn't understand was Ciro's story, why was he paying the people living on that building, or more accurately, why was the Mafia paying them?
Zim: You can't keep your eyes closed forever! You have to breathe sometime!
For past services and longterm loyalty. Like a pension fund of sorts.
'Do you see me?' (Anton Chigurh)
It's because they were relatives of imprisoned Mafia members.
J
Right, it's more "shut up" money than anything else. They keep the parties who have been injured emotionally by the mafia quiet about it by keeping them with a roof over their heads and enough money to live on. It's more than they could probably get on their own, and from the mafia's point of view, it's a far cheaper to keep everything quiet.
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