You are equating morality with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism. With "optimizing the integral of happi

You are equating morality with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism. With "optimizing the integral of happiness" You can be a perfectly moral denteologian (that is, a person that believes in moral rules, not in moral objective functions) and be a billionaire. A second possibility: you can be a utilitarian, and believe that positive sum trades should always be taken (untenable position as this is (1)) and think you are taking one such trade. That is the claim Elon Musk seems to be making: This money today will save human lifes (electric cars reducing climate change) and increase the future number of lifes worth living in the cosmos (spacex) (1) On the untenability and self-destructiveness of "always take positive sum choices, even if they harm you" 1) living an American middle class life while children starve might be similarly morally reprehensible 2) Not killing oneself and donating ones organs (saves what? 10 lives?) might be similarly morally reprehensible