>>41921950The people he selected got in by paying a huge entrance fee and occasionally some arbitrary nonsense because of course he has to kinda sorta offer membership to the player for being a prodigy. His logic was that the rich were the people who gave to the world and had merit. The poor could have some merit, but all they did was take. This was after he became disillusioned after being a philanthropist of some sort for a while. The problem was that most of the people who signed up were trust fund babies, and he seemingly had no problem with that.
He also reveals last minute that he wants to wipe out all pokemon because they'd cause fighting in the new world or something like that.