You could call it greed, but everyone who lived by the sword wanted the retirement Yuval was thinking about. To achieve that, they needed money.
Even those who lived by swinging swords eventually had to think about their old age.
The Skull Mercenary Group's greed was natural. There was no insurance to help if they got hurt, and even family had limits to how much they could help in this world.
The degree of closeness varied by household, but families willing to throw away their own lives to help others were few and far between. And most didn't have the means to do so anyway.
In the modern world, disabled family members could get at least some help from the government or social organizations—unimaginable here. The heavy burden placed on them would inevitably lead to ruin, whether sooner or later.
What people saw as their bleak behavior was partly due to a cutthroat society.
