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- May 29, 2021
Do you guys think Nick would still have turned out this way if he was a regular boring CPA instead of a (non practicing) lawyer? Is it nature or nurture with him?
I think he lasted three years working a regular 9 to 5 job and even in his first year of work out of college, he was having severe trouble adapting to it. I think that whatever his occupation was, he would have quickly attempting to use his accommodating parents and his grandparents money to exit the workforce.
Nick, like a surprising number of people IMO, cannot handle an unstructured life without work. They fall into heavy drinking, drugs and/or degeneracy. Just like Nick did. You see it with retired people who just can't handle retirement. You also see it among the entitled children of wealthy people.
The nurture failure in Nick's life was a failure to make him accept and deal with adult responsibilities. The guy has always been a child and seemingly always had his parents protecting him or covering for him. He could never have afforded a stay at home wife or the houses he was living in from his own income. He could never have paid for law school himself.
The nature failure is a lack of empathy, narcissism, laziness and utter selfishness. The "real" Nick is probably best seen in that stream where he goes after the mother of his children over the consequences of pregnancy to her body. He is also one of those archtype people who read Ayn Rand books and falsely convince themselves that they are Ayn Rand heroes when they are in fact the people Ayn Rand was most critical of.