Is it just me or is Bezos' fitness a bizarrely common topic for tech-skeptic pieces? I swear I see it written and meme-d about more than basically any other single human-interest factoid about executives.

If that's true, it raises the question of why. The look isn't all that exceptional, he's just somebody who works out a fair bit, and didn't when he was younger. He's not exactly Erik Prince. So the focus on it, and the frequently malicious tone, sort of parse as "he doesn't look like nerds do anymore, that's suspicious".

This could all be apophenia, obviously. It just raises an eyebrow since I've seen athletic programmers greeted with "but you don't look like a programmer!"

Alas, capitalism means many different things to many different people.

(As a mildly interesting example of a similar phenomenon: the pro-business libertarian / neo-liberal FDP party in Germany still proudly calls itself 'liberal'.)