That's news to me

I would expect him to be in one of the top spots.

It needs some improvement.

Elon musk is among the top of the list. He is also the founder of companies that created and advanced a lot of technological wealth in the world. A huge contribution.

But it's far from certain that the recent SpaceX stock will create a lot of wealth for retail owners. Maybe even the opposite.

So if Elon decided to sell all his shares today (and likely destroy his companies in the process), he'd shoot to the top of the list? What's the point in that?

My 401k has benefitted from the growth of e.g. Amazon for sure, but the main 'wealth' I get from them is my ability to buy anything and get it delivered in a day. That is, I benefit from their infrastructure existing, regardless of who the shareholders are.

I was expecting to see a list of technologies like Linus's Linux or the transistor, but it's just a list of rich people.

The strangeness of capitalism seems to be that it misjudges value that hasn't been financialized.

I think the title is misleading—I should probably correct it to something like:

'A list of donors who contributed a lot of dividends and capital gains to Wall Street pension funds and index funds.'