I mean, they must know how much the public mocks them, right? What are the odds they’re actively trying to make everything worse as a Jokerfied “I’m taking the whole world out with me.” kind of thing?
Just a random tin foil hat thought, don’t take this too seriously
To “truly hate” something, I think you need to understand it first, and these billionaires absolutely do not understand what humanity is. I think their “hate” is on the same emotional level as a toddler being denied a toy, except unlike a toddler, they have vast resources to overcome any sort of obstacles in the way of them getting what they want (e.g. environmental regulations, people living on land they want, etc).
Yes, they are like aliens. They have no frame of reference to understand how a normal proletarian lives and they don’t need to. Yet for a proletarian, understanding how these aliens think helps explain much of our own lives.