You’re making it sound like they had real skin in the game. If it fails they walk away with enough to retire on anyway.

Let’s not make celebrities of the biggest grifters out there, emotionally coloring them in as possessed of magical insights. They’re people playing a game where the deck is stacked in their favor by that sort of fawning.

It’s an unverifiable claim to suggest they were uniquely gifted. Uniquely positioned is not the same thing.