I'll talk specifically about people in major institutions and influential billionaires. I think It's more about a wealth and power / control thing. When you gain a large amount of wealth and influence, it makes people seek out more and more degenerate things, and often times they want to hurt people, and they want to get away with it. When you are wealthy or well off, you can hide it better and enjoy more opportunities to gratify yourself through connections and wealth.
These people run international cliques. The top of the music industry, Hollywood, the FBI and other intelligence agencies, the most powerful churches. There are cliques of powerful people in these institutions who are connected, some of them might run blackmail rings, but they all protect each other. Look into Epstein and Maxwell and all of their connections and you see a glimpse of what the international clique really is. There's a reason why they were arrested for sex trafficking to... nobody. Evil people protect evil people.