He didn't want to just make HIS life better, his mother was sick and he was going to probably never get to see his daughter again on top of being in a ton of debt. These situations required a lot of money of which he didn't have and pushed him into the game. Desperate people do desperate things to get what they need. He was planning to go to his daugther but he couldn't let them keep doing this to people when he saw that they were planning to do it again. He didn't have the money to do anything about it before, but now that he does he can be as righteous as he needs to be.
Knocking on the door of a deaf person for 44 episodes. It was like watching a boxing match but the ML had his hands tied behind his back and just took a brutal beating the whole time.