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Originally Posted by NewChief
Chuck's bullshit hubris is awful. He literally thinks he's better than Jimmy. Jimmy, who has basically waited on him hand and foot during his illness. Jimmy who worked a shit clerking job while also getting a law degree and passing the bar.
Chuck thinks he's better than Jimmy, just as lots of high society rich people think they're better than those "below" them and think that there's something inherent in them that is superior to other people that justifies their success. Obviously, Jimmy's past is shady and he does some morally questionable things in his attempt to hustle, but Chuck's self-righteous monolog on the sanctity of the law and how Jimmy doesn't appreciate it was just self-righteous BS.
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Jimmy
doesn't appreciate it.
Put yourself in Chuck's seat - he's made himself a millionaire and the big swinging dick at a massive firm he built from the ground up using 'conventional' methods. He's surrounded everyday by other top-shelf attorneys who are going to have exceptional pedigrees. Of course se sees the world with a slant that favors the blue-blooded, top school, top tier bias - we all see it from where we sit and his chair is pretty much resting atop a mountain of money that this worldview made for him.
Jimmy does take shortcuts. He does use methods that are definitely impermissible and likely flat out illegal. For someone that created a monster from the ground up and has been insulated at the top of that monster for years, that's absolutely going to rub him raw.