The 💰$$$ was the bait that captured many, but the objective was reducing the world's population and establishing conditioning to autocratic rule - building the kingdom of antichrist. While many don't embrace such ideas, their misbelief just made them all the more servants of that side of the great spiritual battle now being waged in the heavenlies.
The 'Rat Party has sold its soul to Mephistopheles for the promise of wealth and power - nothing new except for the presence of this current battle. Nothing of the current global conflict can be understood without recognizing this concept: the 'enemy' has conceived a plan to force the kingdom of antichrist BEFORE God's time (Yuval Noah Harari.)
theories abound that those who escaped totally form the shots could then be ready for space travel with a number of modifications. dont know if thats real but it keeps coming up.