Musk is just the Lebron James or Michael Jordan of entrepreneurs.  It doesn&#x27;t matter that others aren&#x27;t as good as him or as driven as him to keep improving.  There is an entire league of entrepreneurs out there doing things that aren&#x27;t as well-publicized but still very fundamentally important to our society and how it works.<p>And your ignorance of the fact is probably that you never stop to talk to some of the business owners in your area, and see what they&#x27;re planning.<p>You can only find so many stories at the height of public consciousness and Musk just happens to be one of them.<p>As for buying mansions and yachts, you can&#x27;t tell me that that&#x27;s any different than you buying the latest iPhone or car when you already have a perfectly usable phone.<p>Hell, we could all be getting by with Nokia 3350s if we really want to take that argument there.  We don&#x27;t really need color screens, or internet in our pockets.  It&#x27;s really just a convenience after all, and there are many less fortunate out there in 3rd world countries without phones at all.<p>Here&#x27;s where we begin to argue about what poverty means and what &#x27;filthy rich&#x27; means.  They aren&#x27;t clearly defined.<p>I&#x27;m for people who earn money, fairly and legally, using it however they see fit.  If they want to build space ships, awesome.  If they want to buy yachts, awesome.<p>Even the yachts employ people and produce net effects on the economy that could be argued as positive things.  Many engineers and craftsmen are employed by the yacht industry.<p>I happen to live in one of the yacht capitals of the world, Fort Lauderdale, and there are over 100,000 people employed in that industry here alone.