He just doesn't get it does he.
He certainly does not - and
has not from the moment the meltdown started. I was reminded of the Five Stages of Grief that were first proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book
On Death and Dying.
The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
She stated that not everyone will visit these points in this sequence, some points are visited more than once but, before the story is complete, they will have visited them all. In subsequent years, these steps have been identified with divorce, losing your job and (simply) LOSS.
No, he doesn't get it because he has lived all his life with cost cutting and knows nothing else. Having to throw away all that you know and believe in AND that has made you 'top dog' and very rich - is almost impossible.
Another current example is Teresa May.