Just seems like unwarranted cynicism.

Seems more like pattern recognition to me. What else do you expect from the rich, when our society is explicitly set up to elevate greed to the highest virtue?

> I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.

They believe it's real and they MUST be the ones to control it. That's how they keep their self-interests aligned.

Fun fact: 'they' are human beings too and some of their interests do allign with yours. They have kids too and might want them to have a proper future, they don't want to fall I'll to cancer either etc

No, they are comically evil mustache twirlers according to HN.

I believe that they believe what they are doing is good.