Correlation or causation? To become a tech exec you have to be looking at a few million dollars in the bank, making probably 500k-1 million per year and decide "you know what, this is not enough money. I am willing to trade more of my time, relationships, physical and mental health, and life energy for even more money".

This unhealthy (in my opinion) line of thinking is probably correlated with other unhealthy lines of thinking. Such as drinking and taking pain killers.