why do we (society) obsess over and often hate tech billionaires but don’t bat an eye at music billionaires (taylor swift, jay Z), sports billionaires (magic johnson, lebron), or entertainment billionaires (george lucas,  tyler perry)?

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we didn't used to hate tech billionaires 

iirc that's like a past 10 years phenomenon

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Bill Gates was a pretty despised character as far back as the 90s.

but that was mostly within tech right? 

the meme of the tech wunderkind seems mimetically powerful up through the birth of like instagram (if my tea leaves reading is right)

That was also during a time where tech wasn't so pervasive as it is today. People were just starting to come around to using the internet for the first time.

In the 2000's we had Myspace Tom as a public tech figure. But I don't think anyone hated Myspace— it didn't last long enough to have negative consequences.