>>519483928 (OP)
We as a society started respecting salesmen, merchants, actors, singers, entertainers and started looking down on intellectuals, thinkers and philosophers.
Don't forget that Aristotle was behind Alexander.
From Plato's Republic.
The top of the worker class, the business owners and traders, are to be respected within their class only. Warriors and philosophers should get more respect than even the richest of the workers, because at the end of the day they are not led by greed and they make the circumstances possible that leads to their flourishing.
Why should the ones building the system (the founding fathers, the great thinkers of the western world) get less respect than some snobby rich guy? That guy could only succeed because of the system setup by the philosophers, and the wars fought and peace defended by the warriors.
Everyone should read the Greek classics.