In terms of technology and innovation, the 1% are certainly ahead and the convenience or access to information and digital networking in business and administration for modern civilisations is obvious to the common man.
Why these frontrunners are hated by some, from my perspective, has less to do with the applications and more to do with rich people being bored and their success going to their heads.
The moment they set themselves up as world-improvers and determiners of the destinies of all that is earthly is the moment when you don't have to talk after their mouths. Charity is a keyword here, do-gooderism, and the "we know better what humanity needs than local agency" really gets on my nerves.
Indeed, very few will make it to fame and fortune and follow the long tail that makes me-too's out of them. I don't see why it should be any other way and the hard work, the ambition, the unconditional will to make it to the millionaire's league takes hard elbows, staying power and the right connections. Those who want that will go that way. The majority of people are not made up of geniuses, that's just the way it is.
That's why most of what you find here on the blogging scene is mediocre to below average. A kind of pastime and an artificial fussing over certain trigger topics or else shallow praise for the nice posts and neat efforts to "create content". Content for content's sake, no one crows about it, but since the beginning of the various platforms, millions have earned their small earnings and thus kept the system running. The carrot that the average blogger has in front of his nose is the hope of fame and money that never dies, isn't it?
Many will therefore leave and be disappointed, while the next ones are already scuffling their hooves and also want to try their luck, these are the famous masses, without whom it won't work.
My best book recommendations, conversations and tips on interesting authors and websites/ideas have come from users who run their blogs beyond popularity, earn pennies and provide downright NOT the popular mediocre content (far better than I could ever have formulated and devised myself). The common user knows nothing about such sources, authors and websites. But since you don't find such bloggers on the trend sites, it remains a niche existence. Although I would also say that the best works often never make it into the mainstream. Because they were never pushed. That's probably better, because the masses detest what they're not used to.
On the other hand, the masses jump on anything that is pushed and trending and that the individual, who may have struck gold for himself, would not pursue, then suddenly does when everyone is doing it.