The US has been formed religiously by various congregations that descend from Calvinism, which teaches that hard work earns you the grace of God. In modern times, this has morphed into Prosperity Gospel which teaches that if you are loved by God, you will become materially successful, as well as the flipside; if you are materially successful, you must therefore be loved by God.
The billionaire worship is simply the secular version of this faith. X made billions of dollars by owning a business that does Y, therefore X must be an expert on Y, and businesses in general, and is a genius, and is a morally superior person. Otherwise X wouldn't be a billionaire, because - horror of all horrors - the world is just, isn't it? It couldn't be the case that X just got lucky, can it? Surely, X has earned their billions, right?
You’re still fixating on the wealth part, which people on this site (at least the arguments I see upvoted) do not.
People are “worshipping” Musk because of his repeated success in making successful large innovative businesses. The wealth he has is a product of that, but the deference is to the success of the companies.
This is a vapid over-generalization designed to dismiss any statements by attaching them to the wealth, not the person. Don’t do this.
Nobody is talking about the Waltons, Buffet, Larry Ellison, etc. This is a discussion about Musk specifically and his history of operating companies.