Sometimes I forget how awesome Maytag is.
Wow. Maytag is soooo cute! Blondes can ALWAYS get over on me.. darnit!
But on to the subject of the Thin Man... I think he does EXACTLY what his compatriots say he does!
I'm sure that he gives his subjects EXACTLY what THEY ask for... but there is a catch to that. What people want is not always in their best interests!
I'm ALSO sure that Maytag would agree that people are ...in general VERY good at fooling themselves in to thinking all sorts of stuff about themselves that is patiently NOT TRUE!
Humans are very good are self-delusion and Magic as is presented in this universe is many times HARSHLY TRUE! What you think you are and what you REALLY are colors your magic or the magic that is used upon you.
So the thin man may only be doing what his subjects ask of him to do.. but in truth they can some times be VERY UGLY within their own hearts... their own hidden flaws that they don't wish to face or admit to.. and it ... grounds out in the TRUTH that magic reveals.
Maytag would be the first to agree I'd bet that people can be VERY UGLY inside even though they may personally think they are paragons of virtue! With hidden or displaced anger fears, hatreds, preconceptions, avarice and the myriad of other personal flaws that we all dislike or worse do not see in ourselves!
May tag seems.. at least to me VERY adept as seeing herself and those around her for what they are.. as she knows the deception that she plays everyday... and accepts those limitations in her own heart.
I think if the thin man does something for Maytag.. she will be one of the successful ones... because of her understanding of her true nature and the effects on those about her. She truly has a good heart... at least I think so.
...sorry didn't mean to wax all philosophical there..