I disagree with the first part. Somehow modern society has declared the production and sales of useless bullshit to be a positive virtue, but its not, and this mindset is slowly collapsing society.
Truly smart people aren't interested in making the world around them a stupider place to live in, because they realize that behavior that hurts more people than helps isn't smart. It doesn't matter how much money it makes you -- if people around you are worse off because of you, you're an idiot.
now this is one hell of a statement and I had the deep urge to repost this right now...
...though, as live is a bitch (or at least comes with sort of odd sense of humor), the dunning - kruger effect
shows to us, that presumably the majority of those individuals this statement actually addresses, are in fact
due to their nature incompetent, hindred and sometimes even unable to at least partially comprehend
mentioned concepts... tl;dr: sad thing, it's like talking to a brick