Walter White exaggerates and pushes Marx and the Epicureans' view of life to the extreme, which in the process destroys his family, harms others, and ultimately even kills him. Karl Marx's philosophy was to exploit the full potential of each person's abilities(2) and have that person do that job. The Epicureans were convinced that freeing oneself from fear along with pleasure would bring the greatest good. (1) Walter finds great pleasure in making his meth, he also does so with his greatest intent to be the best he can be. Walt takes into account these opinions of Marx and the Epicureans. But it does so in the craziest way, in a way that does not conform to either the general vision or the practices of these two philosophies. Walt has changed significantly throughout the show. In these changes there were actions, these actions had consequences. These consequences left Walt and Jesse's family shattered, many people ended up confused in barrels, and many more killed. Walt was a genius in chemistry, others recognized this, in contrast, Walt saw his genius only by looking at the Nobel Prize he had once helped win. His full potential was trapped deep inside a shy, unambitious middle-aged man. He was too weak to stand up to his wife and despise teaching high school chemistry, even though he was co-creator of a now multibillion-dollar science company, Gray Matter. Instead of him, his son looked up to Hank, Walt's brother-in-law because Hank lived an exciting life as part of the DEA task force. Hank saw the action, locked up the bad guys, and was carrying a gun. But Walt's full potential was there, eager to come out. Alongside was his enormous ego that was unknown until the day he was rushed to the emergency room. You have mustard on your shirt, Walt replied disconcertingly in a monotone voice to the doctor. Walt had just learned that he had lung cancer, but it would be weeks before his family knew. Walt would emerge as a new person before JR, Marie, and Hank discovered him. Walt would be reborn to a new life of manipulation, crime, and cold-hearted murder in those short weeks. Marx believed that work asserts oneself. Marx said that people's abilities and the ability to work on those abilities brings satisfaction.