When a person "needs" 1 TRILLION dollars to be motivated, then there is fundamentally something wrong with the picture and the person. Telsa board. if I understand it correctly, has granted him a TRILLION dollar pay package.
At least in my point of view, if a person wants to help humanity move forward, it does NOT have to include obscene amounts of money.
All my business life, I have been exposed to ego, greed and everything that goes along with it and it never fails to see people who are totally self-absorbed and so out of touch with the icing on the cake of them "thinking" that they have ALL the answers.
Any one worth their salt understands that it takes EVERYONE with their own unique talents and viewpoints to move life forward, NOT just one person, nope never ever.
Some day in the future he will be like Edison and so many others that are remembered, BUT in passing only and the greater good will be thought of much more.
Walter