What the hell was his problem?

what the hell was his problem?

None at all. He was a very competent business man.

he wasn't breastfed enough

He didn't want people to succeed

AREN'T YOU A HEALER?

too many milkshakes

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His ambition was driven by his hatred for people. I thought this was pretty clearly communicated.

>It was just good business

It's the other way around. He started to hate people when they could not get on his level and act in their self-interest, and it got worse over a lifetime of plebs trying to trip him up and slow him down with petty, wrongheaded bullshit. That bit about "drainage" at the end can be applied to the film in a bunch of different ways. The world just hollowed him out and turned him into a monster