While it may be "depressing", isn't it logically consistent with how the world appears to work? One way to make a lot of money is to sell a lot of a product.

While it may be "depressing", isn't it logically consistent with how the world appears to work? One way to make a lot of money is to sell a lot of a product. Most people are of "pedestrian" (average) intelligence; ergo, to sell a lot of product you must appeal to those of average intelligence. As any industry grows you see this "regression towards the mean" - one only has to cock one's ear slightly to the side to hear the lamentation of readers, gamers and movie-buffs about how "everything has gone to the dogs".