Krishna uses a vivid image here: ashapashashatair baddhah — bound by hundreds of nooses of hope. Each unfulfilled hope is a rope around the neck. One expectation is tied before the last one is cut. The person walks through life weighed down, tangled, barely able to move freely, yet keeps reaching for more rope.
These people are devoted to two masters: desire and anger. Desire drives them forward; anger erupts when desire is blocked. One feeds the other. When you want something desperately and cannot get it, frustration boils into rage. When rage subsides, desire returns even stronger. It is a cycle that tightens with every turn.
To fund their pleasures, they hoard wealth through unjust means — anyayena. Cheating, exploiting, taking what does not belong to them. For them, the end always justifies the means. The goal is enjoyment; how the money arrives does not concern them.