Maybe if he paid taxes and was not a robber baron monopolist

If he achieves what he wants he will be person of the decade. Namely the transition to EVs & solar globally.

Oh, and it may be chicken feed to him (on paper), but would $50 million prove any point? Given that his shares in Tesla only count when he sells his "stock options", which he has to do at a given time, according to his contract. And how much did he put in of his own "second self-made at the time" fortune to Tesla to get it where it is now?

And how much has he pledged as the prize in finding cost effective atmospheric CO₂ extraction?

You know, when money means little, except as a measure of success, it is instructive what such people do with it, like risk it all on a project with some global worth. On a scale of "0 to 'Jeff Who?'" - how should we rate Elon?