I think that's basically it.

I liken the behaviour to tech enthusiasts, you know the extreme overclocking community. The 3dmark benchmarks? They want to see how high the number can go, it becomes an addiction. I haven't owned a computer since 2019 do people still do that?

For any normal human anything over 10 million/year becomes redundant, but you get attached to numbers and just wanna see for curiousitys sake how your personal high score can get. If a billionaire went from 100 billion to 10 million his lifestyle wouldn't change, and at that level it probably isn't the number that matters but the missing comma. The comma becomes the fix and so they're chasing the fuggin dragon.

Same sickness as a hoarder who sees value in mundane objects like pop cans but isn't viewed under that lens because money is ultimately a noble pursuit, we just need to identify when money hoarding becomes a mental illness and write some law about it as a society in general.