“Money and power to what end?”
Why do people compete with each other for money and power? To personally rule their world and be better than everyone around them if they can... For the elites it is competition to see who will rule the whole world and all of humanity. Each wants to own the whole Antfarm and all the ants in it just to say they do.
They are mentally ill and addicted to wealth and power. Even if what they do makes absolutely no sense at all, if it gains them either or both they will mindlessly do it whether it is logical and rational or not. They are truly “not in their right minds”. And they do not care how many they have to hurt to do it.
I was speaking specifically and rhetorically, because I happen to know those answers.