I've long held the belief that humans cannot truly create. We just remix and recombine. This is interesting - although I'm not religious, many religious texts call god the "Creator", perhaps because the ability to truly create original thought is above the ability of us humans. To truly create is divine. Maybe the writers of those old texts recognized this as well.

This is a ridiculous view.

Most humans cannot incrementally contribute since they don’t have many traits required to do so - extreme discipline, imagination etc.

We literally live off and benefit from the investments of the few, in relative terms.