If you average out people you end up removing all refined qualities. This is for example how otherwise sophisticated intelligent respectful people end up creat

If you average out people you end up removing all refined qualities. This is for example how otherwise sophisticated intelligent respectful people end up creating a brainless government that acts like a rampaging dinosaur trampeling everything on its way. It is a quality we all share in modest amount while various compensating refinements are shared by fewer people. Similarly, if you let the customer design the product it at best wont be revolutionary and at worse be something no one likes. I wonder if doing the exact opposite would yield inferior results.