"If you're making $300k a year, you have more in common with someone making minimum wage than you do with Elon [Musk, the founder of Tesla and other corporations]. There are people that walk among us that have so much wealth, that even generations of mismanagement can't squander it. These folks you speak of are not those folks."
You're right. Its easy for me to get locked into looking at things from a certain paradigm but things are changing very fast and who knows what conditions will look like in a few months or years.