Hard to argue with results.
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
H.L. Mencken.
That is an interesting quote. The assumption about "ideas in their head" because they are "educated" is a big one imo. I do think however that people are better off when they create something for themselves - even if it isn't something useful :)