It's a fundamental social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that it sounds like 'Well yeah ' but you start to think 'Why not though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.