[TheOldLady]

Indeed, but a thriving populace is the source of their income. If they drive us all into penury and kill us off, it will be mutually assured destruction. They will have wealth, nothing else, and no way to acquire any more.

They’re insane.

[riri]

They believe technology has set them free from the confines of those things. Now they look upon us as cockroaches infesting what could be their play land of leisure. They see themselves as gods.

No one said it was sane. It's certainly evil and though I am not a religious person living through these times makes me question my assumptions.