That's an interesting perspective, but not the only lens I would view this issue through. John Mackey (founder of whole foods) makes a point about the intellectual vs. the commercial class that seems relevant:
> Intellectuals have always disdained commerce. That is something that tradesmen did—people that were in a lower class. Minorities oftentimes did it, like you had the Jews in the West. And when they became wealthy and successful and rose, then they were envied, they were persecuted and their wealth confiscated, and many times they were run out of country after country. Same thing happened with the Chinese in the East. They were great businesspeople as well.
> So the intellectuals have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down. You might say that capitalism was the first time that businesspeople caught a break. Because of Adam Smith and the philosophy that came along with that, the industrial revolution began this huge upward surge of prosperity.
I had to seriously laugh seeing Horowitz invest millions after his "time to build" piece. We wanted flying cars and we got 140 characters, and now we wanted skyscrapers and spaceships and we get a digital nightclub for nerds.
Secondly I think it shows very clearly how much the superficially liberal, tolerant, woke entrepeneurs of this generation resemble old business tycoons. As soon as journalists shine a light on their behaviour, the masks come off.
I remember a piece I read last year on class dynamics[1]. The author characterises today's class war not as the working class vs the rich, but as the rich against the professional and managerial class. The 0.1% vs the top 10%. I think this was a pretty good observation and it's becoming more and more apparent. Journalists, public representatives, Engineers with a sense of ethics and so on are coming in increasing tension with the actual owners of the companies they work for. It is on display at Facebook but also in this article.
[1]https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa...