One of the richest man on earth sharing boomer memes under their real name on social media is the ultimate evidence that you don't need to be smart to become rich.

The horrors of the 20th century relegated communism to the darkness of academia: every practical application just killed millions of the people it was supposed to help, so normal people learned pretty quickly it was bad news and the only ones left advocating were the theorists. It's essentially morphed from the idea of worker's revolution to a technocrat revolution. These people believe themselves both smarter and morally purer than the majority and that if they were just in charge and allowed to guide society according to communism, things would be great.