But as Kendal said to Mattson early in season 4 ‘already a billionaire’.
Money is meaningless to them, it’s the power and the prestige that they crave.
I enjoyed the finale and the whole season. Logan was proven correct too, none of them are ‘serious people’, maybe because of Logan himself and how they were raised, maybe because they never had to work for their money, but still correct.
Absolutely correct - Logan himself being, despite all his other flaws, exactly that. To a fault.
I think you're absolutely right about money being meaningless, and the power and prestige being what matters. This is the world they grew up in, and which, to their detriment, they embraced. They've accepted the rules of the game, and the notion that how well they play it is what defines them. Even Connor, who has sort of officially withdrawn from the competition (as well as from the real world in general). Despite this very obviously (when seen from the outside) dooming them to failure and unhappiness. Because they're really not equipped for it - and even if they succeeded, they'd never catch up with or surpass their own ideal image of their father.
Obviously, they
could have chosen otherwise - but they're up against the whole, awesome defining and shaping power of upbringing, reinforced in this case by privilege and insulation. If Logan had been an auto mechanic, he'd just have been an unlikeable asshole, and they'd probably all have just turned away and looked for something better in their lives.
The outcome
is still good for them. They're just incapable of seeing it that way, or the opportunities it presents. The worst is Shiv, who immediately chooses to step onto the worst possible path - becoming a presumably pliant Mrs Tom Wambsgams, taking up a position of dependency to another super-male, but this time someone she loves and respects much, much less than she did her dad. Ouch.
In the end, you kind of pity them all - wallowing around in a world that is not of their choosing and which they accept they are powerless to change, and recognise as deeply fecked-up, doomed to perpetual unhappiness and progressive destruction. But still it's too alluring for any of them to want to escape it. You sense the only ones who will come out of it well are the hard-headed ones who have never thought of it as anything other than transactional - like Geri.
