I don’t have to care about Elon Musk’s net worth tied up in stocks and debts, I have people who love me and he doesn’t. I win that contest, you almost certainly do too. What good is money if you don’t?
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.