There's no such thing as a self-made rich person. Rich people may work hard (some of them work incredibly hard, others hardly work at all), but their work wouldn't be nearly as profitable - or might be entirely impossible - without the systems and infrastructure around them.
This is even more true when we're talking about the ultra rich. Even if Elon Musk is smart, well-connected to reality and a hard worker (and if he is any of that is debatable), it would be impossible for him to have been productive enough to earn ("earn" as in "deserve") 244 billion dollars, which is his net worth as I write this.
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