What he has gained can hardly be described in such grandiose terms.
I'm sure it feels like "the world" to Nick, but that is simply a reflection of how warped his sense of value has become.
I agree, and in case it wasn't clear to everyone, I was quoting directly from Matthew 16:26 (
See also, Mark 8:26). Jesus is asking a very important rhetorical question there about worldly wealth versus spiritual. You can have some or all of the former, but you ain't got shit if you don't have the latter.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?
If you're Jewish, I suppose you could look to Psalm 49 for a similar message.
And if you're neither, or an atheist, then... hell... I dunno... just
look at the man. Does he seem happy to you? It's like the man is subsisting on pure hate at this point. It's the same reason he keeps playing the Kurt pizza casserole video over and over and over again. Meanwhile, Kurt doesn't even care and is just doing his own thing (successfully, even).
I'll repeat that I unironically would never want to be Nick, and neither should anyone else. He wants to believe people are jealous of him, and to convince others of that, but nobody worth a damn is jealous of Nick. Jealous of what? He's a soulless husk of a man.
Also, his mom isn't gonna be able to send him Petrofac money when he ends up in hell. I hope he realizes that.
EDIT: Typo.
