Kill the tech bro, save the world: how CEOs became Hollywood's new supervillains

theguardian.com

2 pointsraleighm2 comments

I don't think this is new. "TRON" (1982) and "Robocop" (1987), for instance, featured "evil CEOs".

I agree, though I'd add that most previous evil CEOs were middle-aged and transparently greedy.

Newer villains are younger, hipper, and less transparent. They may even be given a "saving the world" complex to both humanize them and make them more like today's seemingly-socially-conscious young CEOs.

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