Perhaps he would be most helped by getting a fucking job. Has Nick done literally anything he can be proud of outside of keeping his kids alive (so far)?
I think this is part of the reason behind his fuck up. He was always a failure in the past. Mediocre in high school. Mickey Mouse undergrad degree because 'I wanna be a writer'. Failed pathetically in his chosen profession. Sold nothing at all.
Gets on his hands and knees and begs the parents;
"I'm gonna turn this all around. If you'll just pay for law school, I'll work really hard, become a lawyer -- someone that you can be really proud of. Someone who earns loads of money!"
Goes to a mediocre law school. Works like the midwit that he is. Graduates. Nobody's going to hire this moron. But even if they did (and they won't) Nick is too self-important to go and work for the man. Back on his hands and knees in front of the parents. (Can you tell I watch too many Korean dramas? Those fuckers are always on their knees in front of the parents.)
"If only you'll lend me the money to set up my own law firm, I'm bound to be a success. Look, I have the law degree. I passed the bar. I'm clearly working harder than I ever have."
Sure, but not hard enough. Nobody just up and sets up a law practice without any actual experience of working as a lawyer. It's fucking insane. You can't learn the shit you need to run any kind of business without first learning the trade. Oh sure, perhaps you might luck into starting something in a new disruptive industry where nobody knows anything and demand for your product is so hard that you can muddle through without knowing anything. But in an established trade like the practice of law? Forget it.
So Nick sets up his law firm. It's an abject failure. He gets no business because he's got no fucking clue what he's doing. To fill up the mountains of free time he has when most young lawyers would be shipping those billable hours, Nick starts his YouTube channel. And fuck me dead if he doesn't experience some success for the first time in his life. Initially, he's groping around, looking for a role to play -- God knows, nobody would be interested in this failure of a trust-fund baby. What the hell could he talk about that would make people care?
And then he hits on his trad Christian lawyer dad role. And it's successful. People like him because unlike most people with those values, he appears to be open and funny. Those things tend to be absent in most traditional Christian types. He has an irreverent sense of humour, that allows him to build an audience, and so during Rittenhouse and Depp, he starts live streaming and coining money hand over fist. He's able to get other YouTube lawyers who are looking to grift to appear on his shows and he's anointed Pope of LolTube.
Consequently, he manages to convince himself that he's a fucking genius. He must be a genius. He spotted an unexploited niche (of course, he did no such thing -- there were a pile of YouTube lawyers that predate Nick) and he made a million dollars that year. How the hell could he not be a social media genius? And all those know-nothing motherfuckers telling him to pull-up, pull-up? Incels and prudes, the lot of them.
So I think it was his pride in building that YouTube channel, building an audience, persuading a handful of them that they should subscribe to his locals channel and spunk off $5 a month in his direction that convinced him that he was right and that he'd be stupid to start taking advice from others. After all, if he'd listened to those people. he wouldn't be the success he was today, right?
It's Niggie Smalls syndrome.
"This live stream is dedicated to all the teachers who told me I'd never amount to nuffin'.
To all the troons who reported me to YouTube when I was hustlin'.
Called the jannies on me when I was just trying to make some money to pay a plastic surgeon to tighten up my wife's snatch and pay the nanny to look after my five kids (It's all good)
And all the other lolyers in the grift,
You know what I'm sayin'? It's all good, baby baby...
