[icecream_so_gud]

The people who run today's society use the creations of yesterday's gifted and motivated, along with their own, important, incremental updates.

The people who create tomorrow's society are the gifted and motivated here now.

[tchaffee]

We all create tomorrow's society. Every individual is hugely dependent on other humans. And many of the people we are dependent on have quite mundane jobs. Devalue these folks enough and they will no longer do work and society will collapse. History shows us this and the result is the opposite of progress.