i think if you work in a customer facing job for at least five years and walk away thinking "yes these people are all capable phd candidates" there's something wrong going on in that analysis so hey i guess we'll just disagree here
Would i say there's a significant portion of society that is through various ways made unable to utilize their intelligence i.e. an einstein toiling in the fields because they got bills and shit to deal with? sure but id have to not believe my lying eyes to extend that to "most" people
i think people really idealize and fetishize non- industrial agriculture to a weird degree that is divorced from reality, like, I'm pretty sure I read the haber bosch process alone is essentially responsible for feeding half of humanity at this point, but maybe I'm wrong for thinking "there's no way you're getting enough fixed nitrogen to feed four billion extra people without industrial processes." I'm pretty sure I'm not though and if you blanket replaced all capitalist agriculture with whatever you'd have mass starvation in the absence of industrial fertilizer production.