Of course capitalists want to make money. Their primary goal is very far from charity. They don't want to improve the common weal (although publicly they say they want to help, and some even convince themselves they mean to help society, to rationalize their selfish motives).

I'm a bit disturbed that people took my satire seriously. Are rich people different now? Is that what people think?

Frankly you could find lots of posts like this on HN which are entirely earnest.

Yeah, but they're not doing that out of a sense of charity; the idea is that eventually they are entrenched enough that they can jack up the prices.