There’s a great scene in HBO’s classic television series The Sopranos: two mafia wiseguys enter a Starbucks-type coffee franchise and attempt to give the manager an offer he can’t refuse. Either he pays their “merchant’s protective cooperative” or they and their Italian-American compatriots will come back to break a window, or worse. The manager, without breaking a sweat, tells them that . . .
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