[mrtksn]

This sounds like abuse. Give them the money to satisfy their ego, take their lives away and multiply your your wealth?

Then they hate the society, don’t have moral compass and relentlessly keep trying to increase control and resources for even more ego stuff.

Sounds very unhealthy to me. Fits with the observation that numbers are all time high but everyone hates their lives and trying to destroy the system(whatever they perceive it as). Suboptimal practices are better as they leave some life on the table.