It's popular to think that. And I agree he was privileged. But I don't think you should make out that he was richer than, I don't know, Gates? I know his dad owned a mine at some point but I've never seen real financial detail of extreme wealth or particularly obscene uses of money from that time in Musk's life. Please correct me if you have that info and can provide a source.
His broken family may be part of the reason he seems to lack empathy. But I also think he's autistic and immature. And being extremely wealthy now, noone tells him 'no' (a generalisation but you know what I mean) and that had denied him growth in his adulthood as well.
It depends on the industry and corporation. For example if you get equity in a startup that goes public, you could become very, very rich even as a lower level grunt employee. But yes for the majority you are correct.
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u/Prized_Lemur 7h ago
also, just being a slave to some corporation does not mean you will be rich. They will most likely just run you into the ground