Every single villain ever made has THIS in mind. They are in fact trying to change the world to better suit their needs or wants. Changing the world is a big job, so they need money. People will disagree, they remove the opposition. Their changes don’t go along the current rules, so they will be a disturbance to society. But ever wonder what it would be like if the villian’s point of view is actually a good view.
A great fiction Samurai once said, "There is NO good or evil. Only your idea and mine". Technically, we always side with our OWN opinions and we see anything contradicting to our opinion as bad. Should a Dominant idea be a good idea, then it will become our idea as well, because we accepted it. Anything bad, or is of the minority, such as mine, would be viewed as a deviance in life, not worth the whole picture and will be soon pruned out.
World Domination simply is the enforcement of another’s idea. If a world can do with less money, a government too ugly, a rebellion in need, a secret kept or published, a lie told to make conflict, or an opinion that world peace will only make things worse, we need to express it. In religion, a bad event is either destined or given as a test, to mold based on the past or the future. Villiany isn’t bad. It’s just different. Wanting revenge is only because your ideas to change the world wasn’t taken serioulsy.
If we all WANTED to change in the first place, the villians would actually be heroes. I’d see it that if we have to use manual labor, less food, more death and criminal minds to see the future, I’d say "ALL HAIL VILLAINY!!!"