The DC Foreign Policy community version of what
@GreenPlusAnE writes below is;
"I went to the right schools, I did the right internships, I met the right people, even my Mom says I am the smartest. -- So why does Orange Man
@POTUS and a bunch of farmers get to be in charge?"
Robert Nozick explains socialism's attraction to intellectuals: they don't care about the "working class". Rather, they resent capitalists for earning more money than them, despite their apparently inferior merit. They're disappointed meritocrats, not suffering laborers.