This sounds like whoever drives them to do this is interested in more than just money, so what is their motivation? If it were that simple, could we just infiltrate and replace this secret cabal, who would then drive the billionaires to do good?
Power. Power over others, over everyone. Power to control the human world and twist it however they wish in the moment. Money is just a way to keep score, and a tool to manipulate the more menial lackies.
could we just infiltrate and replace this secret cabal, who would then drive the billionaires to do good?
No, because any attempt to do so would both be very obvious to others in the “cabal” and necessarily less ruthless, meaning it would soon be quashed. I put “cabal” in quotes because they are not some unified secret society, but a collection of individuals with the necessary monomaniacal drive for power and willingness to sacrifice everything to get it, all of whom are trying to manouver to stab the others in the back. That they occasionally seem to work together to keep those outside the group down is an artefact of them all trying to achieve the same thing in the same way, and using each other to get it, rather than genuine cooperation.
This sounds like whoever drives them to do this is interested in more than just money, so what is their motivation? If it were that simple, could we just infiltrate and replace this secret cabal, who would then drive the billionaires to do good?
Power. Power over others, over everyone. Power to control the human world and twist it however they wish in the moment. Money is just a way to keep score, and a tool to manipulate the more menial lackies.
No, because any attempt to do so would both be very obvious to others in the “cabal” and necessarily less ruthless, meaning it would soon be quashed. I put “cabal” in quotes because they are not some unified secret society, but a collection of individuals with the necessary monomaniacal drive for power and willingness to sacrifice everything to get it, all of whom are trying to manouver to stab the others in the back. That they occasionally seem to work together to keep those outside the group down is an artefact of them all trying to achieve the same thing in the same way, and using each other to get it, rather than genuine cooperation.