Money is not an end. It’s a (one) tool to get there. To the ends you want. To some sort of change in the world you want to achieve.
On that front this is incoherent. I vote incompetence.
A lot of the finance folks work in an M-C-M' world, where Money (M) is the alpha and the omega, so you see this kind of (IMO) perverse behavior.
I've found this mental model helpful in explaining these kinds of behavior.
Maybe for the overwhelming majority of the population, but it simply isn't the mindset of the billionaire class that supports Trump.
Money is not an end. It’s a (one) tool to get there. To the ends you want. To some sort of change in the world you want to achieve.
On that front this is incoherent. I vote incompetence.