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Rich people just being themselves are the very embodiment of "orthodox privilege". Though specifically the orthodox of whatever currently gets you wealth & power. http://paulgraham.com/orth.html 

A genius who is good at numbers will make more money in our modern world than a genius who is good at colors or a genius who is good at war strategy. "Unlocking your inner genius" gets you rejected much more often than rich.

Following your passion only works if your passion is actually valuable. For most people, we don't WANT to find out that our passions are. It would make our chosen script lives unbearable.

The realm of the elite all look the same because they've created structures to filter for more of the same. Even for something as petty as a programming interview job.

When the elite however recognize that they are just lucky, that their natural genius and the nature of the world match up, then they become a great source of unlocking other people's genius.

E.g. the artists who knows nothing about business or numbers can have help in the form of others. The artists natural genius is channeled into a socially useful form.

The elites of now are actually MUCH better than the elites of old. E.g. previously we had 'general' elites, creating an ecosystem of constant war. Now we have 'capitalism' elites creating an ecosystem of constant growth.

The free market is crucial for that artist to be augmented. Money is crucial as a method of transferring certain types of genius into forms of usable energy.