What is wealth?
The landowners were rich. The land was real wealth. Also, wealth is slaves. Slaves cultivate the land, and landowners get rich.
Then loan capital appeared. Gold has become valuable. Derivatives for gold, such as promissory notes, emerged. The bill is very handy if you are traveling.
The financial elite gradually began to dominate the landlords. Then industrial capital arose. The capitalists began to compete with the financiers. There were stocks, bonds ... Slavery was abolished. The landlords finally lost power.
In the XXI century, IT technologies have developed. The problem arose of the redistribution of wealth from capitalists and financiers to IT specialists. One of the instruments for this redistribution of wealth is Bitcoin.
Many IT pros in the 21st century have become millionaires thanks to bitcoin.
You made great points! I tend to agree to the most part, however, I believe with the emergence of financial elite, the history might not have been exactly as you described. Even the largest industrialists were financed by banks and investors (i.e. financial elite). Even during the WWII war, Hitler was financed by elites. With tech millionaires, same - they obtain capital from VCs who in turn have LPs in the form of banks, insurance companies, large funds, etc. - thus also, either directly or indirectly financed by elites. You cut their cheap capital flow and they all will die together with their "unicorns". And that's just the surface fin elites, and we didn't even discuss the Fed, BIS, IMF, WB, SWIFT, and those supranational ones who exist above and beyond the state's reach.