I agree.
The political "elite" doesn't need smart and educated voters. They just need a mass of low educated people to buy their crap :) And vote just because they are told so by their local leaders.

Also, the business "elite" doesn't need expensive workers.
I am sure that a worldwide research is placed, it will reveal that the so called "middle class" is smaller and smaller everywhere, if it exists at all.

Each country - 1-5% very rich and then the rest is barely surviving the increased cost of living.

Well educated people are much harder to enslave as they adapt better and won't work for minimal wages, while the mass will just take whatever job opportunity exists, no matter what.

Our world is currently ruled by people who are too greedy, for money and power and that won't end well. Not quite different from the past centuries, either :)

Phew, I'm stopping here :)))

Have a great day yourself :)