Link: Academia keeps down the working man

https://reason.com/archives/2015/10/27/why-intellectuals-hate-capital

So the intellectuals have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down. You might say that capitalism was the first time that businesspeople caught a break. Because of Adam Smith and the philosophy that came along with that, the industrial revolution began this huge upward surge of prosperity.

They’re the equivalent of the courtiers saying whatever is needed.