It also leads to some weird cultural downstream effects. There are all these influencers convincing young men to dedicate everything to their jobs/side hustles

It also leads to some weird cultural downstream effects. There are all these influencers convincing young men to dedicate everything to their jobs/side hustles and adopt Musk-esque narcissism/low empathy communication styles (before that it was Steve Jobs). They ignore that Musk has a deeply abnormal personality that fails him outside of the particular set of circumstances that he excels at, and these young men don't share most of the same traits. You should choose your reward function based on your personality, your values, and what you're capable of given your traits, abilities, and circumstances, not based on what "worked" for the statistical anomaly that is Elon Musk ("worked" is in quotes because ranking #1 on the money leaderboard probably shouldn't be most people's personal life goal to begin with).