How much does being a crime lord cost? | Breaking Bad | CLIP 

Jesse wasn’t bald here.

Breaking Bald

@@H.K.5 Bald enough and with that widows peak, he'll be there soon enough.

May the baldest man win

They're all right!

Exactly and walt forgots about 3 important things that gus had a lot of connections to sell to and a lot more employees and bigger and better machines to make more stuff

It was less about the actual and practical $ & % amounts and more about making the business HIS. He wanted to call the shots and do it his way because he’s the genius, innovator, et cetera. His ego blinded him many times and this was one of those times.

That's the point: greed is irrational.

Heisenberg's product is unique and he has monopoly, therefore lowering volume increases scarcity, demand and price.

@@redadamearth I don't think in Walt's case it is greed. Its pure ego.

Worst thing to say to a guy who will do anything to win

Walt's fragile ego was basically the plot device for the show. If Walt just shut the f'up and swallowed his pride he could've cooked on the DL in a meth super lab and been rich.

@@raulbetancourt5795 Do you not know what the point of that line was?

Fragile? Its hard to take words like that from a gen that shatters.

What a crock of shit, Walt was 10 times the man Jesse James was and he knew it. Mike's constant whining didn't affect his ego at all

Walter was never good at staying on top. The actual hard part of climbing to the top of the pile

@@twiliblade literally up to episode 3 of season 5 Walt had every chance to pull out and make it right, but he's keep climbing higher - the more he climb, the more depraved he became even until is very own downfall, he's got the last laugh over everyone, Walt is the perfect combination of talents and lucks

They don’t work for him. What happened in the show would have happened in real life. Or they’d be so scared of what would happen they wouldn’t say anything. Imagine thinking you get hazard pay for working for a cartel

People talk all the time. They just rarely have enough to offer to bring the big guys down

I kind of agree with Walt here, a cartel would’ve killed to silence them. Mike was to attached, they were loyal to Mike, not Walt, they would’ve turned on Walt for a deal.

its the percentages that bother him.. not the dollar amount .

The way Mike had the audacity to take hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay off “his guys” without broaching the subject with Walt or Jesse

​​@@Redhotshawntexas They are the reason why Mike his people are in jail to begin with. If they just kept doing their job and didnt kill Gus they would have being fine stacking bills. They wanted to go in business with Mike, this is the cost. Your talking like Mike looking after his people is a bad thing

⁠@@DutchGabbersshort sighted selfishness and greed isn’t just Walt’s specialty.

@@DutchGabbersnice strawman argument.

What frustrates me is how Walt complains about only 137,000 dollars of tax free money for being a chef. Even Wolfgang Puck doesn't make that much everytime he cooks.

No it’s because of mike using the lawyer to make the deposits

@@michaelsouslin891 Not tax free cause everyone has to pay taxes even drug lords.

@@rusty7984hey 🎉

Gus was so professional always and nice to Walt, wasnt mad at him saving Jesse from the two dealers, didn't threaten him or anything, never had a problem with Jesse and Walt simply TOTALLY WENT NUTS OUT OF NOWHERE!!🤬🤬🤬 He totally without any reason ruined the whole thing!💁🏻Everything was going perfectly for Jesse and Walt but Walt wanted to bee the man!🤮 Walt is truly evil. Whats wrong with that guy!? Walt, the evil Devil, and his ego simply are too much!! Ego driven babeh...

Jesse was an open faucet of ham. But we all loved that ham.

Was looking for a comment like this

Why do you think it went unnoticed?

dang 😂

He decides to pay because he's keeping a façade of being in the same page with Jesse. Which he immediately drops in the last scene, not caring in the least about what Jesse's telling him

yes, that’s correct.

Thats not why. He did to keep his false care for jesse up.

it's greed not srego, don't create newspeach

Good Point .

doing it the way they did is likely better for transparency, or else walt would do the math himself and ask why his cut is so low anyway

​@@owencheung4224that's what financial statements are used for bro. The only reason why they did it like this and not thru paper and excel is for the dramatic effect.

Walt was going to raise a stink anyway. Best pull the bandage right away.

The way it was shot in this scene was excellent though. Having the big stacks of money as Mike takes portions of each is masterful framing.

Jesse is smart. But Walt wants to be in the empire business.

​@@jasonmartinez9051 I think one of the points of the show is how Walt has always thought of Jesse as inferior to him, even going back to the time where he was his teacher. But as the show goes on it not only shows that Jesse is, in fact, very street smart, but also smarter than Walt when it comes to dealing with people.

@@alanwatts8239 Jesse knows how to swallow his pride and take a loss when he needs to. Walter needs to be the biggest man on the block and can't stand anyone being over him. Jesse when he got clean would have been exactly what Gus wanted in a cook. He just wanted to make money, live a quiet life and take care of his people. Walter and his ego constantly ruined things, even more than Jesse and his conscience

@@jefferycrouse4652Seeing how Jesse blew everything up even though Walt gave him multiple outs later on just because he started feeling guilt over a being in this game, even though it’s stupid because he knew what this game contains, would say otherwise if he kept working normally with Gus. Skylar was right in her regard about Jesse being a a rabid dog needing to be put down.

Once you realise how big the pie is, there's the choice to enjoy the piece you get, or there's the choice of chasing a bigger share because you know there's more.

yeh

In a way it's when he became what he destroyed with Gus. Gus was the kind of guy to murder people in cold blood, hurt children, whatever it took for business, and that's one reason Gus made the big bucks. One thing Walt discounts here is I believe this was their first cook as a new business, sure the legacy costs seem steep now, but Gus didn't get to where he was overnight. If they would have ever gotten to cooking 200 pounds a week again he would have been bringing in over $20,000,000 a year, suddenly legacy costs don't seem so bad.

@@richardmorrison7741Walter didn’t kill any children you lowlife And just because Mike wants to pay every guy 40k each every month - why would Walter do that?

I don't remember much, but Walter killing the 9 guys in prison wouldn't make him have a bigger "legacy cost"? Since he used many other guys to do the job?

@@leonardor7181 that’s a one time Payment - not an ongoing cost Is that so Difficult to understand?

Mike is such a PoS - glad Walter ended him

After it was revealed that Mike was the one who told Todd to shoot that kid I really lost a lot of respect for him.

@@saysallawhere was this revealed?

@@saysallawhere and when?

@@bloodspiller0666 it wasnt revealed anywhere, dude is talking BS

I mean, there is no world where Fring allows Walt to live, so not like there were many options available

@@JediLordRevanwalt dug his own grave in the gus situation, if he kept his mouth shut and did what he was told everything would have been fine, if he and jesse didn’t go kill those two people that work for gus every thing would have been fine

​@@hamadhamad70 He messed up trying to save Jesse, Jesse is the real root cause of all the problems.

@@hamadhamad70so it’s all jesse fault basically, walt tried to save jesse which triggered everything

Correct, that's what Mike explained to Walt in the scene we all just watched. Very good. I Love How the clip on which you left the comment

And it's totally reasonable. I mean, saying "legacy costs" out of a sudden while dealing with other people's money, what do you think would happen? Walt would just let it go, without even knowing what that term meant? I would have Walt's exact reaction too. It's not about ego, it's about getting things clear

That’s what you took away from this. Your room temp IQ is showing, smoothbrain

@@ginpak7037 i mean, mike saying "we gotta pay these guys or they have no reason to not rat us all out" is more then enough tbh xD

@@ich3730 they rat him out anyways xD

its poor communication on Mikes end imo. These costs should have been discussed before.

Because he's just over it. By this point in the show Walt had put him through the wringer

@@RySenkari that's because they were

It does for the IRS B)

You can get away with drug manufacturing, drug trafficking, assault, murder, disposing of corpses in barrels, money laundering, but god forbid you don’t pay your taxes.

When’s the last time you made over a 100k in one deal bro😂

@@sales6556 for real, drug trade is double digit billions of dollars per year just in the USA

"I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Noooo thank you!" -The Joker.

The Legacy cost of 300K PER COOK was not sustainable , imo and way too big of a Slice off the top .. when Mike says " my guys are an ongoing expenditure , so best get used to it" Mr White was already trying to hatch a Plan to OFF them all .. its just not doable ..

Doesn't matter because Walter was right and mike was wrong. The Guys eventually snitched

​@@Josama0214 That is wrong. Those guys never said anything. Their lawyer Mike hired for their cases eventually made a mistake when depositing their hazard pay, got arrested and flipped. The 9 guys died because their lawyer was making a plead deal. Not the henchman themselves. Mike trusted the wrong lawyer. Not wrong henchmen

@@DutchGabbers My point is that if Mike did what Walter said originally, no one wouldve snitched

@@Josama0214 Kill the guys? But the entire point was that the entire reason they got arrested was because of Walter and Jesse.. And none of them have said a single word while in there. And there is no indication imply they would have regardless of the compensation. Mike simply was looking out for his people. Mike investigates every person he works with while working for Gus.. So I am sure these guys are incredibly loyal. Mike wasnt gotta let Walter kill his people simply because they got arrested and lost every single penny to their name entirely because of the actions Walter took and the heat he brought down upon them.. They trusted the wrong lawyer sure. But that dont make Walter right in his actions to just kill them

To make it dramatic

For a scene to build up some tension and additional motivation for Walt to kill Gus' men.

Otherwise Mike would have to get a whiteboard, you really want to have a whiteboard scene? 😂

True it would be like an employer paying his employees all of his revenue the calling all his employees back and saying they need to give part of it back to cover costs.

Production value..

When you're a criminal I would imagine no price is too much if it means staying out of jail

It’s probably what they were getting paid before

@@smithsj227 they could still go to jail paying them isn't a get out of jail free that's the point

It’s $1300/day, decent pay normally but that could include being executed by gorillas with biros, or worse.

To keep a megamillion dollar criminal empire going??

tbf the people who side with walt in general have already missed that his entire character arc is atleast once per season throwing away a perfectly good setup for his ego. so they aren't going to get this either.

lol im sure thats what the super rich fortune 500 CEOs will tell you...

This is what small business owners go through every payroll period. The reason the CEOs of major companies are wealthly is because they get their compensation through stock options and equity in the company they work for. They don't get a salary like their employees because that income is taxable. They only have a salary because it needs to be in the books to verify they are an "employee" of the company.They know how money works while the rest of us think pay raises will get us to wealth.

@ashtonderojas821 the remark I made was said partly in jest but with that being said I'm iffy about the "being the boss sucks" perspective or just that phrasing in general because 1) it can easily be used (and is used) to justify unearned privilege and/or shitty behavior and 2) despite the challenges that would come with being a boss, even in a small business, it will never suck as hard as being the guy at the bottom of the totempole. So yeah something about that phrasing just kinda bugs me

Yeah, it was that lawyer.

@@kynoble ironically that was Mike's own folly. He despised Saul but could ask him to do the job instead. This is where his code backfired.

@@thedarkone9552He also had a stupid code of thinking there is “honor” amongst thieves, which clearly wasn’t the case as the show displayed.

I respect your struggle. Keep going if you believe in it.

Advice don't take a loan to start a business is you can. Save up money for startup capital.

@@PharoahsKingdom that's impossible for 99% of the people.

Kind of left him no choice after threatening his family.

​@@johnwayne8494He could have just walked away there and then. He had tons of money to give his family but he had to be greedy

Jessie asked Gus to let Walt walk away and Gus decided to do this by threatening walts family instead of you know just leaving him alone Gus’s fault 😂

nothing is ever Walts fault in his mind.

​@@sharpasacueballskyler gave the money to ted

Further proof that Walter wasn't actually mad about the money but the fact that Mike was acting like their old grumpy grandpa and that Walt has no other choice but to financially support 9 losers who got caught lmao

@@itsshrimp91 I think Walt was mad about the principal of it but also the money. I don't think he realized just how much money he was making until Skylar took him to that storage unit.

Wasn't that scene way after Mike's dead and Walt killed all the prison people and is operating basically solo with Todd volunteering and getting all the Czech Republic money?

Wth its not 9 guy = 40k / month Its each guy get 40k / month 9 x 40k Thats why legacy cost 351k If its only 40k walts not gonna complain Even saulman cut only 54k and he is not saying anything

That was later on, when their operation got better and more profitable. It’s just Mike had to always rub Walt the wrong way. Not excusing Walt’s ego, but Mike wasn’t helping his case, especially when he thought stupidly that his guys would have “honor” and keep their mouths shut.

For walt it never was about the money, but keeping his pride intact with the one thing his ego won't let him drop and it's illegal chemistry.

😂

This is based on real life organized crime. If people know things about you that can get you sent to jail for the rest of your life; and they no longer have income because they are being investigated or actually in jail; then you pay them to keep them from talking unless you can kill them without much blowback. Jail is full of greedy criminals who didn't pay for loyalty. The Fed's literally broke the New York Families, because they could get lots of people to roll for an easier sentence. This even bleeds over into the legal world. A law school buddy worked for a waste management company, and they had old mob guys on the payroll. Legacy costs from buying the business and moving the mob out. I'm sure the same was true when Howard Hughes bought Vegas Casinos from the Mob. Even SMU had legacy costs from when they were paying players. One guy got injured and couldn't pay. They cut his payments and he talked. Brought down the whole program. Legacy costs are real.

How would it go with real criminals?

​@@kashstorythe way Walt eventually did it. He got rid of them

@@davos6129 You mean the neo-nazi gang got rid of them. And then they, knowing about this one dude sitting upon a multi-million dollar drug ring without a single soldier, just go: "eh, let him have his fun, we got our cut" instead of taking over. Is that realistic?

Yeah that timing and delivery was perfect!

Aaahh wire 😂

Before what? If Walt had told Mike or Saul he was going to kill Gus then Walt would already be dead.

Walt agreed to Mike handling the business side of things, and this was a business expense. 9 guys not ratting you out to the DEA is a pretty big business function.

@@tacitus6384But they should be out of Mike’s cut, because they are Mike’s guys, that he thought had “honor” to keep their mouths shut, but turned out they’d easily sing if there is no cash flowing. Mike could have killed them and he wouldn’t need to see Walt ever again, but hey, every character has its flaws in this show.

@@MikeCobweb they should be out of the group's cut, they're keeping the group out of prison, and they did keep their mouth's shut until the money stopped. It was a fair expenditure, they honored the deal.

It's part of Walter's character. He's so convinced that he's the smartest guy in the room that he refuses to defer to anyone else's expertise even when they know better for him. Like when he thought Jesse was lazy and stupid for not being able to move $40k worth of meth in a single night. Or when he didn't listen to Jesse about how dangerous it was to sell on someone else's turf. Or when he dismissed Skylar when she told him that she couldn't launder $7 million in $50 bills per year through a car wash.

The restaurant was making money too though so that probably helped

Yeah but keep in mind some of those expenses didn't exist for Gus, like he didnt had money laundering fee because he washes His money thru His restaurant and distribution fee was much smaller because again, he used His restaurant's trucks, plus he was making close to 200m per year so 40k per dude didn't feel that bad

The restaraunt itself was self-sufficient too, ya know. I doubt he'd mix any illicit funds with the publicly-tendered funds he'd get from Los Pollos.

@@itsshrimp91 lmao how did he launder His money then?

If he didn’t mix the ill gotten bills with the clean ones then that would have been bad idea as that is opposite of laundering. He wanted to launder it so he had to mix it

Exactly,a liability,if it was Walt in that position who needed it(legacy cost) I doubt they would have done it

after a few years those guys would be thinking about a reduced sentence over padding their huge bank accounts further

It was never about money for Walt, only for probably a month or two. He just wanted to prove that he is bigger than Fring. And he failed at every turn

Mike’s hubris and arrogance got him killed, he looked down on Walt and treated him with contempt even when it was obviously wise not too.

And now you know how EVERY rich person in the world thinks.

Mike wouldn't have left that room.

He knew, it's just pure ego. He's trying to be in the empire business here.

Gus did pay a legacy cost for his employees if they got arrested. It was explained in the show that they all had off shore accounts which they would receive if they kept their mouth shut while in prison. However, all the off shore accounts got seized after Walt killed Gus.

@@roody716 No, that wasn't legacy for Gus, that was his current costs. Legacy is something inherited from the past, hence why Walt is pissed because they were never his guys in the first place and did absolutely nothing for him, but he inherited the cost of them from Gus anyways.

​@@bruhvenantNo. He inherited them from Mike. Not Gus. Mike was paying the people 'he', himself, owed.

@@DirtCheapFU bruh, you actually think Mike was paying the huge salaries for all those guys? If he had the money for that, he wouldnt need to keep doing this shit. Gus was responsible for paying them, Walt inherited the cost for Gus. They are associated with Mike, so keeping them paid is a cost of going business with Mike. But the hush payments are inherited from Gus.

What a braindead question lol

Mike was overstepping his bounderies. He saw Walt as an idiot and if yakno idiots... They won't surprise you.