Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Look at it this way:
There are four basic groups of people in a society:
There are smart lazy people. They become middle managers, officers, and other "White collar" workers. This is because they're smart enough to do complex tasks and figure stuff out and lazy enough to figure out how to get someone else to do stuff instead of them. Their laziness prevents them from rising to the top at the same time. In the military they are officers.
There are smart energetic people. These are the true movers and shakers of society. A small proportion are those that become CEO's and mega entrepreneurs like say, Elon Musk. The bulk of them become shop supervisors, foremen, and other frontline leaders. In the military they are senior NCO's and generals or admirals. They know how to do stuff, and they get things done regardless of obstacles.
Then there are stupid lazy people. These are the helper monkeys of society. They won't do anything unless forced to. The smart energetics are more than willing to flog them into doing stuff. The smart lazies figure out what these losers are capable of and assist the smart energetics in getting the most out of them. Of course, a stupid lazy will never amount to shit, but nobody else cares. They do all the grunt work and then they die to be replaced by more of the same.
The last group are the stupid energic type. These are the "hold my beer and watch this shit" sort. They're the useful idiots in a revolution. For example they fill the ranks of Antifa, and other radical Left and Right groups. They do stupid shit that harms society. Their fate is usually to end up being shot dead or in prison for life. They have no value or use to society.
Their only alternative reason for existing is they are useful idiots to smart energetic people who are evil in nature. That is, an evil smart energetic wants to disrupt society, so they calculatingly use the stupid energetics to ferment revolution, riots, and terrorism.
Elon Musk is an asshat. He has never had a business venture that wasn't focused on public money. He isn't what you people think he is.