@pluralistic I think it should be realized that due to ambition, social status, and luck, there will always be people who reach the level of Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, etc. These people are not extremes on the bell curve in ability; they exist because the distribution has outliers, and the outliers happened to be these men. It would have been someone else if circumstances were different, but once wealth reaches a certain level, it becomes self-sustaining almost despite one's actions.