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PhilosophyTube aka Abigail Thorne has a take on this in her "what's wrong with royalty" video: If people associate prestige with something they can identify with, then the prestige can "rub off" on them in their perception, they can claim to be part of it. E.g. Britishness being tied to the royal family and that being inherently more refined than more base communities.

For Musk, he's a white, rich tech bro who explicitly announces his "alpha" status https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/elon-musk-told-first-wife-at-t... (which I'll let you read between the lines yourself on) - a lot of white wanna be rich tech bros will identify with him.

And that's not even going into the whole "If I lick his boots enough senpai might notice me" dynamic