Well, yes, but there are so many ways of making money! So many more agreeable ways. Are you suggesting, Guest, that this is the only way of making money that Howard Stern is actually any good at? :-)

I mean, hell, one can make great money being a lawyer or a hit man too, or even a porn star, and it doesn't offend nearly as many people.

Therefore, I think his major impulse is that he WANTS to offend people, because he enjoys the attention.