I didn't say that no wealthy person had ever achieved anything. And I buy lottery tickets myself sometimes.
But do you disagree with the assertion that wealth should not get a person special deference and should not place the interests of wealthy peope ABOVE the interests, the needs, and the basic right to be treated with dignity and respect of the global economic/ethnic/racial majority?
I hadn't tried to build an electric car(I was too busy working day jobs, such as the twelve-hours a day seven days a week runs I just retired from putting in on the Alaska state ferry system. It's perfectly possible to validate the achievements of an Elon Musk or a Bill Gates or an Oprah Winfrey or anyone else you could name without treating them as if they are gods who walk the Earth and the rest of humanity is nothing.
Mr. Musk put an effort into creating his electric car...but the engnineers who perfected the designs, the workers who built the cars and the consumers who chose to purchase it mattered just as much as whatever Mr. Musk himself put into it. He built the thing...but that doesn't mean he's entitled to hegemony over those who didn't. And I don't know that he even wants hegemony.
And all of those people would have done everything they did WITHOUT any of the 1933-1981 social democratic consensus on economics and social welfare being rolled back. It's not as though Mr. Musk ONLY did what he did because unions were weakened, corporate regulations slashed, job security was made a thing of the past and trade deals were passed that give the wealthy the right to overrule the decisions of democratic governments.
Btw, let me take this moment to thank you for actually engaging the discussion here. That will always make for a better thread.