They know what they're doing while surrounding themselves with yes men to reinforce their delusions, never challenging their thoughts and ideology. Billionaires managed to socialize sycophancy psycohosis with AI.

They're absolutely capitalist propaganda exactly because they're too underdevoloped and immature to recognize empathy. Instead, in their selfish beliefs, they want to escape to mars, or bunkers, or inside machines (even though the current consciousness would still end the dumbfucks.)

They know what they're doing, absolutely. You don't need to be a genius intellect to steal from others, especially when you have the funding to pay others to find ways to scam and steal for you.

They're literally devolved humans in that they are unlearning empathy, that which we evolved and gave rise to our current age through community building, teaching, learning, and understanding. Just like racism must be learned, loss of empathy is learned, and the capitalist system they've built, knowingly or unknowingly, reinforces that to the nth degree.

The smartest.and most radical action against them is to embrace empathy and build community and separate systems to the capitalist monstrosity, taking their power from them.

So yes. They're deluded idiots. They know what they're doing, but it doesn't take much intelligence to do what they're doing, it just takes capital and being willing to exploit others.