This is broadly the same people who bemoaned the idea that the "smartest people in a generation" were all just working on adtech without any reflection about maybe that's not actually an exclusive set of the smartest people... or that a lot of the people in that set were the same one who might, twenty years ago, otherwise be chasing money as middlemen in finance vs doing productivity-expanding things anyway...

You can be smart and chase the money, but it's crazy hubris to assume that only your peer set of money-chasers are smart.

It's a small leap from there to "since we're the only smart people, we should get to have the most influence."