You would be able to use the alternatives though. The Ayn Rand idea of the entrepreneur or the investor as as the only true value creator is complete and utter

You would be able to use the alternatives though. The Ayn Rand idea of the entrepreneur or the investor as as the only true value creator is complete and utter BS. By value created, Linus Torvalds and RMS should be the world's largest billionaires (or Norman Borlaug, or any other example that comes to mind). But they aren't, because actually, we don't live in a meritocracy. Power exists, broken incentives exist, corruption exist because less than 200 years ago we had a whole society running on dynastic wealth and oppression, and acting like that just went away is the ahistorical naivety that the work of Thomas Piketty and other historians and economists are contributing to dismantling. Elon Musk impulse bought Twitter and has been bullshitting the public for years on the Teslas, bought himself the "founder" title and has become the main marketing tool of Tesla. Going by merit and wise business decisions, I do not think he should have the billions, I think Gwinneth shotwell should.