aware of the term “crime syndicate”

This was intentional, because your state doesn’t want you syndicalizing. If they associate cooperation with “crime,” you won’t ever unionize yourselves. If everyone syndicates, the state wouldn’t have the power monopolize who gets to business and who has the privilege to operate. Some intentions of laws are good, but monopoly on who gets to decide who and how things operate is how we get this cronyism.