Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161224121458/@comment-5430952-20161231085009

ChishioKunrin wrote:

Not necessarily.

You can run a successful company that makes a lot of money without being cutthroat and morally gray.

Jacques is not the one who initially made the Schnee Dust Company successful and well-known. Nicholas is. "People appreciate a man who’s willing to stick his neck out for them, and it’s how the Schnee Dust Company earned the business of every Kingdom in Remnant." <- And Nicholas apparently did that in only a few years.

Sure, the SDC is more profitable than before with Jacques running it, but if Weiss takes over and has the company stop being morally gray and cutthroat, that doesn't mean it'll suddenly become poor. It might still be perfectly successful, just not quite as rich as it is with Jacques running it.

Whoever is next in line to run the SDC has a choice to make: Making tons of money while being morally gray or doing the morally right thing while being somewhat less successful.

Do money and reputation matter more than doing the right thing? They do to Herr Schnee, and most likely to Whitley as well, the bottom line is everything to them. Though their greed will only grow more lies, as stated in the song "Die." I can't see either of them living through the story, they could easily mark the downfall of the Schnee household, along with countless innocent people, all for a few more Lien and a little more cred. Sad.