https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-the-year-the-overconfidence-man-fell-back-to-earth-2022-12
The billionaires of the PC and Internet revolutions are more lucky of being born at the right time and being master manipulators than geniuses of our generation.
All the $Trilllions of "created wealth" came from the quantum physicists of the early 20th Century, the inventors of the transistor, integrated circuit, and microprocessor, mathematicians like Claude Shannon and Alan Turing, and software pioneers like Grace Hopper, Joseph Weizenbaum, Dennis Ritchie, Gary Kildall, Alan Kay, Dan Bricklin and many other contributors more responsible and deserving than Gates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.