Because we can always go one level deeper...
When I ask people why they dislike Musk, the answer I get is usually not for some bleak, reasoned belief but because of his internet persona. He makes shitty, immature jokes. People think he's a bit of a dick.
Interestingly, engineers I know tend to be a bit more positive on him. I wonder if it's because they're exposed to more of his YouTube persona than his Twitter one.
> If you genuinely believe that society is a zero-sum-game...
The rest of this is strawman-ing pretty hard. I'm sure there are some people as described, but I think there's a larger more nuanced population who are uncomfortable with the huge growth of wealth inequality that's been going on. Some of their ire with the system is directed at those doing best under it.
That's probably not entirely unjustified either, what group in human history did nothing to preserve the status quo when it worked for them?
Society may not be a zero-sum game, but it's not a zero-harm game either.