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Yeah, I do admit the example is terrible. How about the strategy of resource conservation; just because many people can afford to finance a wasteful lifestyle doesn't mean they should. Some smart people took the initiative to educate the rest of society to take responsibility for our consumption of the Earth's resources. If we don't, our global society will literally lose everything in no time at all.
To imagine an outcome of society collapse on a global scale as a result of unrestricted resource consumption requires a fair amount of intelligence and foresight that wouldn't exist in the 1900's.
Likewise, most people have an elementary understanding of what RMS's message and fail to understand his deeper points as well as the implications of them. RMS has consistently shown to be correct as a thinker far beyond his time and people fail to understand his message because of plain ignorance.