The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.