the once-ler was sitting in his chair while smoking a cigarette, he was totally alone in that room and he only spoke to his employees through a communicator and he only did it for business since the only thing he cared about was money, a A while later he moved in his chair and began to talk to himself, he told himself that what he was doing was wrong but if he didn't do it the other person would do it and with that alone he was happy and continued smoking