>>14431287Because their lives are worse. Our society is becoming more complex and more difficult to navigate with each passing moment. In pre-industrial times, one only needed to be able to wield a sword well and terrify peasants in order to get into the upper echelons of society. You were still very likely to fail but being much smarter than everyone else was not that much of a benefit. Modern society has a lot of pitfalls. You can do everything right but get the wrong type of loan for your house or fail to understand the minutiae of modern law in order to have your ability to move up ground to a halt. The barrier to entry into participation is getting raised each moment and becomes more and more dependent on ones ability to understand societal mechanisms and ones ability to manipulate them. Intelligent people are able to overcome this by being able to sit at hours on end for years to study these phenomenae. Rich people are able to overcome this by hiring said intelligent people.
