It’s a classic trajectory. You start as a likeable and geeky tech tyro, you morph into a squillionaire with disagreeable habits, and somewhere on the way you become loathed by large sections of the population.
It happened to Bill Gates – remember when he was an amiable nerd making glitchy but intriguing software? Now he is a mogul apparently injecting us with nanobots.
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