Your note about seeing Asami as "arriviste" is really interesting to me, especially since fandom has so many takes on his backstory. That's a lot more plausible than him coming off the streets. He's certainly less traditional than Feilong or Ranmaru from IIR, but at the same time he's a bit too young for me to believe that he created an empire by himself. He doesn't seem like old money but he doesn't seem like he was brought up as someone Ordinary who just rose to great success.