The Myth of Meritocratic Wealth: Elon Musk and the Oligarchy of Mental Illness in America

Imagine a simple computer simulation: thousands of digital monkeys flipping coins. Set up basic rules of accumulation and competition, then let it run. Inevitably, through pure random chance, certain "players" emerge at the top. This isn't theory - it's mathematical certainty. Run it a million times, you'll always get extreme winners. Not because they're special. Not because they're genius. Just because that's how power law distributions work.

Modern society has created a bizarre mythology around these random winners. Elon Musk isn't a visionary - he's a monkey who flipped heads enough times in succession. His increasingly unhinged behavior - the fascist-style gestures, the erratic tweets, the grandiose pronouncements - reveals someone who's internalized a fundamentally false narrative about their own success.

The tragedy isn't just that wealth concentrates randomly. It's that masses have elevated these random winners to quasi-religious status. Their tweets become gospel. Their rambling thoughts become prophecy. The masses have replaced old gods with new ones, equally imaginary but far more dangerous because they actually control vast resources.

The simulation doesn't lie: give enough monkeys enough coins to flip, and you'll get your billionaires. The fact that these particular winners seem increasingly detached from reality, increasingly authoritarian, increasingly unable to recognize their success as circumstantial - that's what happens when random success is mistaken for divine right.

Real innovation, real genius, real vision - these things exist. But they're found in the quiet work of proving theorems, solving fundamental problems, advancing human understanding. Not in the manic tweets of a coin-flip winner who thinks his random success makes him humanity's savior.

This narrative must be deconstructed. When society mistakes wealth for wisdom, random success for merit, rational thought itself becomes corrupted - while the monkeys who happened to flip heads continue their increasingly unhinged performance on the global stage.

From the perspective of an outside observer, it's a fascinating display of mass delusion colliding with the cold reality of probability distributions.