Bezos is rich. He started a rocket company. Blue Origin has done nowhere near what spacex has done, and that difference isn't down to just throwing money at a problem.
Don't get me wrong, throwing money at the problem is important, but it's just one ingredient.
There are some rich people who have made a difference -- Bill Gates comes to mind as someone that put money and effort in. Chuck Feeney on the "throw money at a problem" side.
But for every Bill Gates there's a Larry Elison, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergy Brin, and dozens more that don't seem to do much.
When it comes to the next generation down, it's even rarer to find kids who are driven to make such a success.
As student he is said to have hosted parties for students in a house he and a fellow student had rented to pay for the rent (same source).
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/elon-musk-ran-a-nightclub-ou...
Soon you'll have an army of geniuses building that cool space utopia for billionaires while the rest of us can stay in the dying world they left us. Our NeuraLink(tm) units will get us through the day, rewarding mining enough rare earth metals with dopamine hits and pain suppression! (That, that was irony. I hope it'll still be funny in 50 years).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/iivbk5/elon_m...
I wonder why his family got out of South Africa as soon as the apartheid ended and hasn't got back since at least once tho.
You take rich families from apartheid states that made their wealth of gems trade & slavery, get the kids excited about space, and give them a world-class education and a huge supply of slaves mining cobalt in africa.