It kind of is, but its like spiderman is all about being bitten by radioactive spiders. Its important to the concept and gets mentioned when necessary, but its largely irrelevant.
Its much more of a cultural power fantasy, the guys even called White, and outwits every established drug cartel he comes across until spoilers
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Loses to the white supremacist neo nazi types.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Only at first. It quickly becomes clear that Walt (the main character) is driven by pride and ego. He gets addicted to the power. The whole point of the show was to see if the writers could break what people see as “bad”, by having a sympathetic character devolve into evil.