They're racing to build a future where we poors are slaves, literally. The filthy rich ALWAYS want slaves, so they're building them, and in the process they'll make slaves of us all--at least that's the idea. Workers who don't eat, don't sleep, don't strike, and never talk back.
Somehow along the way they'll create a small, complacent upper middle class to act as consumers, while the filthy rich become immortal with the new drugs. This has ALWAYS been their dream, and they think it's finally within their grasp, now.