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>People would forget how anything works,
We already reached this point. Children use computers and parents think they understand computers. Turns out, that was totally wrong. Insight is imploding.

>system where the people who maintain direct access to education, resources, infrastructure, etc.. Would rule over and progressively strip the rights of a large "underprivilege leisure class".
This too we have today. The elite destroy the education system while sending their children to still functioning schools that are not within reach of the common family.
>Think of a society where the rich basically keep the poor entertained and stupid, until the point where the poor get so bored and stupid they can't be ruled anymore.
TV industrialised this process.

Read up on hte Iron Law of the Oligarchy, and you will realise we are way into the endgame of that process.