Easily. People as rich as he is, view people like you and I as a different class of humans (which we are) so the things they tell us to do (like “sacrificing everything”) are not applicable to people from their own class (who sacrifice nothing, except us).

“Billions of you are probably going to die so that we can have everything we want, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make… and really, the planet will be better off with you gone anyway”