The word "celebrity" has negative connotations but Elon is famous for very good reasons: he gets results and he helps other people get results. Tom Mueller and

The word "celebrity" has negative connotations but Elon is famous for very good reasons: he gets results and he helps other people get results. Tom Mueller and Gwynne Shotwell could have worked at other more traditional companies but it is thanks to Elon's leadership and aggressive business tactics that they achieved far more at SpaceX. This is not just Elon being rich: space history has plenty of well-capitalized failures. The article presents a story of very successful vertical mobility from people who received relatively little outside help, it's not clear how this makes a case for various forms of affirmative action. If anything it shows the system works reasonably fine.