This kind of hating is not restricted to famous persons. If you are in a software team and produce more valuable code than anyone else, you'll be resented and p

This kind of hating is not restricted to famous persons. If you are in a software team and produce more valuable code than anyone else, you'll be resented and people will make your life difficult. I think in another essay pg writes that the popularity contest stops after high school. This is false, at least in 2021. It continues and is played by the same people with the same high school tactics. I suspect it is because the Internet has made it easy to connect and act like in high school. In the days of TV, one had to sit down and pen a physical hate-mail to send to a TV show host, which is more work and not coordinated with a hate mob.