Apt Quote from Robert Heinlein

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded--here and there, now and then--are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all "right-thinking people". Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, mankind then slips back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck".