Is this true or a meme?
“With a new kind of monopoly came a new kind of monopolist. As Das argues, Gates was an “early template” for a species of capitalist overlord that has since become excruciatingly familiar: the nerd-bully, whose oddness and rudeness are the necessary effluent of his genius. Computerization meant that the commanding heights of the economy would come to be occupied by men who had spent their formative years getting stuffed into lockers, and were now determined to exact their revenge.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/?src=longreads