I find her "mean-ness" to be mostly funny,what makes her interesting to me is charisma/persona,she`s got a presence,whenever she`s in a scene all of my attention just goes to her,"wow factor"
That`s the thing we don`t know anything about her upbringing,backstory,there`s no way of telling(for now)if her perspective ever changed or not.Many of us assumed she was all about money but maybe it was about something more since the very beggining.I believe she was the one who came up with a way to pay for tuitions,she`s the one in charge of the whole thing,my initial impression of her was that she`s just a street-smart type,that`s the way she is but recent revelations make it clear there`s something more going on.
It`s fiction and all that but she just doesn`t act like some one who`s being blackmailed in any way,she acts relaxed and in control,so why does she wants to hire more girls,since it brings loses rather than profits?