It's not too surprising. I used to listen to the Monday Morning Podcast regularly, until (I think) 2019, when he went on a long rant about (my words) how stressful and burdensome it was to have a lot of money, because you're constantly having to guard it, and manage it, and be afraid of losing it. Not like how easy it is to be a poor schlub, because you don't have all that pressure to maintain an affluent lifestyle. I had heard him rant many times about how he's a comedian, so he says that a lot of things that aren't meant to be taken seriously. But, there was an edge to that poor-little-rich-man rant which didn't sound like a joke. Maybe. But it's a well-known effect of wealth that it decreases one's empathy, and that it can happen to anybody.

Monosodium glutamate?