I assumed you were being sarcastic. But didn't see a tag. First, history is littered with 'rich and powerful' people being done in by their own unforced errors - like what Clinton did with 22 year old Monica in the Oval Office, or running a Ponzi scheme investment company like Madoff did, or destroying your reputation and losing our Royal titles and inheritance like Andrew did, or being caught in e-mail exchanges asking how to secretly give your wife antibiotics so she is treated for the STD you brought home from Russian hookers - like Bill Gates did, etc. etc. Never make the mistake of equating 'rich and powerful' with being talented, ultra bright, or necessarily clever. I guarantee you that the brightest people in the world are not the richest or most powerful. Musk is one exception.
“Musk is one exception.”
Sur he is an inventor, but in many ways Musk is NOT wise, nor smart. It will one day, not too far off, come back to haunt him and his clan.