It's a puzzle what makes them tick. I mean, once you've got enough to get by, and a little extra in case, what's the point of buggering around breaking your neck pulling fast ones, and risking disaster, all just to get more? Life's just too short for that kind of crap.

And yet they do. And seemingly normal people, when you say that kind of thing, look incredulous at the very idea that it's even possible to think you've got enough to get by.

Maybe there's some way in which discontent with how things is the engine that drives some people into an obsession with electoral politicking, and then that hunger gets reconnected at some time into straightfirward personal greed. (That's aside from the other situation where it's personal greed and ambition in the driving seat all along, with the politics being seen as the available way of furthering that.)