Such wealth is morally, politically, and culturally grotesque, as is the reflexive worship of those who seem to believe they too might one day become Elon.
Horrifying simpletons now “run” the planet, and that is tragedy, not triumph.
The kinds of intellectual skill required to sustain human civilisation are only tangentially related to the accrual and defence of outrageous wealth and power.
Global civilisation, such as it now is, has been almost entirely configured as administrative scaffolding for the production and sustainment of obscene wealth.
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Civilisation was not built to worship wealth, but it has been redesigned to serve it.