The problem is not people and intellect, it's the social contract. We agreed on consumerism as the way forward before anyone present in this discussion was born

The problem is not people and intellect, it's the social contract. We agreed on consumerism as the way forward before anyone present in this discussion was born. The consumer computer being a computer is tangential. It is also a razor and blades, a supermarket, or a car-dependent suburb. These are all modes of orientation towards consumption. The involved goods and services have other ways of being delivered, but they are drowned out within this society because the primary way in which credit is earned is to devise financialization schemes and extract a little rent for oneself. Blaming the crowd for stupidity is merely a way of scapegoating what's actually wrong.