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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Apples and oranges imo.

Tech billionaires are more like oil, telecom, and other business billionaires that create empires around infrastructure with tangible consequences to the layman.

Music and sports *are* entertainment which we can opt in/out of consuming those products, and is generally inconsequential.

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Totally! I didn't mean to dismiss the value of athletes pushing the boundaries of what is physically possible by humans.

It's more to say if an athlete is financially successful it's because they've become a household name and have sponsorship deals. Which shouldn't warrant any public distain. At worst, just envy.

Sports can be entertainment but they also adversely impact our life through our health on a daily basis. Sports influence the way we're allowed to study recovery in health. I would argue that sports and their aversion to performance enhancement has translated into directing the markets to focus on bandaids / solutions

I don't think these tech billionaires are attributed with "less value" but much more targeted frustration.

I don't care for Taylor Swift as an entertainer yet can't deny the influence she has. Even if I disliked her, we have no direct effects on one another except she has one less Swiftie in her following.

true, but arguably the former enables the latter. a product that we need and cannot opt out of is, by definition, more valuable to us — yet we attribute less value to those that created it than to those that create opt-in products.

is this just humanity’s reaction to fate vs free will, then?