Elon Musk has lost more than anyone else in the history of the world.

[Weltall]

The myth that a guy like Musk rose to his own financial stratosphere through hard work, grit and determination, that's the lie they tell us so that we emulate this alleged example and produce more, harder, faster. In reality, guys this wealthy disdain the very idea of 'work'. Labor is for peasants. Gaining massive wealth is only possible by directing the peasants and entitling yourself to a thousand times as much of the wealth they produce as they get for producing it. That's the whole point of being rich in the first place, and the only people who get to that level in the first place, are exactly the sort of people who are prone to using their resources for all the wrong reasons.