I’m going to come down in the middle .
On paper, yes, you can make an MMORPG with nothing but leadership skills and people that share your vision. However, I’ve seen a few of these scale of projects - even some with good amounts of funding - eventually wither away with naught but abandoned websites to show for it.
Obviously you know it isn’t a sure thing, but I would stay grimly realistic for the first 6 months or more.
And yeah, you’ll find people willing to work for free or cheap, but you really do get what you pay for on average.