I know two people like that. Both absolute genius level but for some reason the only way they can think about making money is by somehow moving it from someone else's pockets to theirs without creating any value. If they spent 10% of their talent on value creation and the rest on the business end they'd be doing much better than they do now. Really wasteful.
I think that at some level it is insecurity. The idea to make money out of nothing is harder to convince yourself you can do than to take money that is already there and move it.
