Yes, you may want a few talented artists etc. to satisfy hte need for “culture”, and a few thinkers to stimulate the mind, but what else are you extracting, and from whom?

The plebeians seem somewhat superfluous to requirements. I hope that doesn’t mean we are in for a culling campaign to thin out the human population and make room for a global wildlife park? I, for one, do not volunteer to be culled.

It seems to me that just as we are not physically adapted to abundant availability of food, neither are we mentally or culturally adapted to an abundance of all things material that were formerly luxuries of the rich. It does not help that our educational system is a legacy of the era of the factory and is still set up to make interchangeable human components of production machine that became obsolete some decades ago..

I, too, fear an ugly reversion.