The point here being that that ^ does not really support, "Yes, this stereotype of innovation or invention being driven by rich dilletantes is absolutely false

The point here being that that ^ does not really support, "Yes, this stereotype of innovation or invention being driven by rich dilletantes is absolutely false, and comes from a marxian historical analysis where the adherents didn't want to acknowledge that drivers of innovation for the most part were from the same background as, uhh, Marx himself, rather than from the nobility."