Vince McMahon's father didn't know him til he was a teen & mocked Vince for wanting to be involved in the business, thought his ideas were ridiculous. But Vince, putting himself through business school, worked hard to be involved, & there's no doubt that he elevated the business.

He was an abandoned son, living with a string of his mom's boyfriend abusers, who finally confronted his father, & then made sure he would take stake in the family legacy regardless of his father's abandonment. Vince McMahon WAS an underdog...

... but instead of remembering that and honoring that he's spent his life trying to collect enough cash and enough clout to erase it. So no one is allowed to say no to his shitty ideas, no one is allowed to tell him he's wrong, no one is his equal, he has all the final say,

no one can tell him to shut down during a pandemic, no one can tell him that human beings have limites and need healthcare and consistency and to be treated like people. Vince is in control now. He paid his dues and now he gets to be the unknowable, unreachable, infallible God.

That's textbook trauma, baby. But it could've been a tool for good. He could've at any point chosen to continue evolving, hearing out the people under him, and wondering what the people part of his legacy could mean.

So even if outside the scope of him having so much money he could not earn another penny & his entire living family would be fine the rest of their lives, fuck this & fuck Vince. Modern stories are full of layers of abuse, & let me just put it this way,

To sling it into one of those stories that formed so much of our empathy and pop culture consumption, I think it's obvious Vince isn't Harry Potter. But he isn't even Snape. He's the Voldemort in this situation. He dehumanized himself and he's dehumanized everyone else.