The liberal project of expanding sympathy for nonconformity agains traditional values and opening access to society’s larger economic table for everyone is no longer viable in our current era of scarcity, inflation, disease, climate chaos, and rising anxiety about the sustainability of civilizational order. You are probably correct in your assessment of Elon Musk but whatever post government-by-nationstate world we are headed for the cushy times for mankind have ended. The meaning of power and money is in the process of being redefined by raw survival.