I’m so tired of people rehabilitating Tom Nook.
The man is a gangster who runs a company town. “He GaVe mE a HoUSe” He’s having you strip an island bare of it’s resources so that he can sell it at a profit. Look at how much he charges for native fruit vs. how much he buys it for. What do you think he’s charging after he ships that shit back to the mainland?
Also notice that your character has no concept of bells when they arrive on the island. This is because bells are company scrip. They have no value outside Nook’s ecosystem. The Nook Miles system is an employee of the month type scam. He wants you to feel rewarded and special. He could just give you the recipe for better tools. He will not. You have no idea about the arrangement he has with the other Islanders. Is he charging them what he charges you? Or is he having you hoard all the food and resources for him so he can sell them back at a markup? Are you laboring to improve Nook’s island to draw in more unsuspecting suckers for him to rinse of their labor? At best he’s a socdem and you’re labor aristocracy. At worst he’s a land baron and you’re a serf. Tom Nook is evil and anyone rehabilitating him is doing what the liberals did for George Bush.