But like Megyn, Katie Couric, Bill O'Reilley, Dan Rather, and every other has-been media personality, money isn't what produces self-actualization. Being taken out of "the game" and rendered "non-relevant" is like The End for them.
Most of us have God, family, a job that's meaningful, and that keeps us going. Most of these talking heads are on spouse #3+, are atheists/agnostic, and measure "meaningful" by Nielsen.
The pile of cash doesn't make these people happy. Relevance, power, and a fawning audience, is what they crave. The cash may as well be straw...I mean it provides them the creature comforts to which they're deserving(!), but therein lies the problem.
True. Also you/we can include pols and dept heads like Fauci into the same basket.