True but the Donalds are not the people we should measure but the regular Joes (and the Janes that seek same).

Now maybe its ultimately the same motivation but expressing different things. But I guess what makes the drug dealer seek status, the thief, the used car salesperson, the food truck operator, the barber...

I guess the only way to find out for sure would be to place lone stranded subjects on solitary planets with no chance to communicate or leave ever with anyone else at the end, come back and see what castaways did -knowing anything they did was for naught.