Some words never go out of date, like for those who mix in society, they all have one fundamental requirement, which is to understand the art of maximizing benefits and minimizing harm.
Especially someone like Boss White, who's mixing at the edges of the Provincial City. If he doesn't know what he should and shouldn't do, then he would have either been locked up for life a long time ago or been reformed into an honest worker earning money to support his family.
Consider Boss White's age, when they were young, it was a good era, with rock music and public trials all the rage. Listening to rock music while flaunting a brass bracelet at a public trial, under the gaze of the masses, finishing the trial then immediately taken to a remote place to be fed a bullet, crispy and delightful...