And, let us be honest, it is quintessentially human to, from time to time, shoot yourself in the foot. But these self-mutilations are spectacular by any measure. These men may have once been all about the money at one point in their lives, but now they have so much of it it has become an abstraction.
What has happened to these men is that they have no measure of themselves. Nothing to model themselves on. And, as if proof were ever needed, they have shockingly uncreative imaginations.