billions themes axe is a guy who can go "i don't comply with a specific set of rules abt What Winners Are Like (by daring to wear tees, eat pizza) and yet i still win" and can accept taylor showing up in s2 with many added layers of how them just Being Themself doesn't conform to, say, how axe is, unlike other people who'd love to emulate him &/or hype him up as a visionary & role model, and yet taylor still also wins. and then there's winston not following the rules for how winners should act just in the course of being himself, and yet still wins, and: he gets none of the seriousness or dignity or focus or lack of the ignored to encouraged negative treatment and we also sometimes go out of our way to declare trivial details about his personal tastes, interests, choices, inherent existence to be incontrovertible Loser branding