A group of smart people get together and develop a money and government system allowing all in society to function more efficiently. At first all are excited and willing to be led by smarter ideas. Overall, things are better and fairer than before.
Then the same group of intelligent people begin to succeed enormously, building up good government and themselves in the center of town.
All experience an increased standard of living, but the masses are just not as smart or disciplined as this group. In fact, they are very poor comparatively. The discrepancy is very great.
So this original group gathers and considers. They think to maybe give of some their riches and benefits to those in lesser circumstances. But then they absolutely reject this idea.
How can we demean them with this help? We built a fairer system then they have ever known. It is not our fault we are smarter, more sacrificing and harder working. We earn according to our efforts and intelligence.
But if we do nothing they will rise up against us. We are so successful they look pitiful against us. They would rather leave and live more comparable with each other, even if worse, than stay around us.
So they said, lets modify the system to benefit those at the bottom most, as long as they try. We have no desire to live opulently, just to live well. And maybe this system is not as fair as we think. If the masses leave, we will be left holding the bag. We are too small to run this system and all will fail. We need them as they need us.
But we cannot just hand them our success. We cannot help being smarter, but we can distribute more generously to the masses, and they wont run us down or leave. Then they were be better off and we can still live well. Besides we know, eventually under this system, all will be rich. So if it is modified to benefit the masses a bit more, it is to our advantage.
