To the top of what? Not asking, but this brings up the whole notion of on what scale are those people being measured? The Musk scale? For if that is what it looks like to rise, then we are rising to the top of the sewage pool. If a society primarily gauges value by virtue of money, then the best of its citizens who have nothing in the bank but everything in the heart and soul are bottom dwellers. Which is, kinda, where we are. All I gotta do is point at Joel Osteen if I want to see Greed Personified.