>>714224686>he wants to keep Jesse aliveJesse was alive and not doing business with Fring, but Walt couldn't control Gale, and that's why he NEEDED Jesse, someone who is a talented cook but also stupid and easily controllable. And if you want to spin it into some "w-well he cared about Jesse" angle which is kind of half true, he tries to have Jesse killed near the end of the series.
And it DOES make him bad since his insistence on trying to control every little thing and trying to prove he's the biggest smartest most specialist boy is directly what fucks up every operation. If he just ignored Jesse and they went their separate ways he could have worked with Gale under Fring and been a millionaire, happy ending. Or after the whole Fring shit, he could have paid Jesse out his share, done work with Lydia, been a millionaire, happy ending. Or he could have just paid hush money to the people in jail, not bothered with Jesse, and kept his less profitable but still multi million dollar business and once again, had a happy ending.
>That literally doesn't negate any of the rest.Yes, when you're so fucking mentally ill that you ruin your own business, that DOES, in fact, mean you're pretty shit at running a business.
He is good at making a product. He is a good cook, I won't take that away from him, but to quote himself
>Jesse, you asked if I'm in the meth business or the money business. Neither, I'm in the empire businessIt's clear he saw what he had as an empire, and rightly so, it generated 80 million dollar profit gross, and in his apology to skylar said he was good at it, and he most certainly was not. Even like you said, from the moment he cooked meth for the first time to when he died was 2 years almost to the day, and Fring did it, successfully, for 20 years. Now THAT'S someone who's pretty good at it.