ted (not lasso)
@ted
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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Steve
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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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ted (not lasso)
@ted
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?
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Steve
@sdv.eth
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.
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Steve
@sdv.eth
Zuckerberg is the face of three social apps. Bezos dominates logistics and online shopping. Any gripes with their products are associated with them. Even Google has a dwindling reputation but lacks a single human to point fingers to. Maybe because there's two cofounders and they haven't been at the helm for years now.
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