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Short answer :
money.
Long answer :
Their wealth affects them in many indirect ways that reinforces abject ignorance.
Those who orbit billionaires are incredibly likely to tell them what they want to hear to a degree that said billionaires probably encounter very few people who ever will correct them or offer meaningful critique for fear of being taken out of that orbit or replaced by someone else trying to get to the position that they have achieved which gives them influence and runoff power / wealth from said billionaire.
It is a cycle which in a self-fulfilling way repeats and reinforces into itself.
They are stupid because they do not learn - as no one ever dares correct them.