Gus and Walter discuss Walter’s decision to start cooking meth. Walt has debated the costs and benefits of his decisions throughout the show’s five seasons. Gus has an incentive to make sure Walter produces for him, so he tries to emphasize the importance of the benefits Walt has received and echoes how large those benefits are relative to the costs.
See more: tradeoffs, cost benefit analysis, psychic costs, subjective costs, decision making, interdependent utility functions
The Economics of Breaking Bad 