Oh yes, unfortunately money talks! Sometime it talks so loud to make you think a rich man has also a high IQ (intelligence). Which very seldom is the the real truth.
If rich persons buy other people brains (ex: elon musk, bill gate) they are not the inventors, they are the grabbing company. Rich people pays an army (of lawyers, engineers, politicians, etc) but the stupid mass-media gives prize to the owner/buyer, not to inside-workers.
But this is the capitalist society that masses voted for, and we deserve the leaders that we selected and supported. It works for me.