I would reckon it's my comments about China. If you haven't noticed on most of Lemmy any statements about china that aren't positively raving are immediately met with downvotes. That said my comments aren't even negative. China's east west program, tight control of their internet, and companies is well known and arguably quite beneficial for them.

You also make good points, we're in a new gilded age but instead of oil tycoons it's tech magnates. A lot of these things have been seen for a long time but they sure seem to be coming to a head currently. Like one could have just seen the behavior kids had with myspace and just extrapolated that out. It's a bit like climate change in that sense, aka very apparent for a long time to anyone who was paying attention. There's nothing new going on but it seems we've about hit a critical mass.

All the while the same games are still being played in nearly every other industry but maybe it's not our time to be enraged by them yet, one thing at a time as the public's collective attention span is famously short.