The most important take-away is: (drum roll) THERE IS A POWER ELITE AND WE ARE NOT IT.
Otherwise, they are keeping everybody well fed, so what's the problem?
Liberty? Funny that would come up. This would call for some different arrangements that people seem reluctant to explore. The Founders were the power elite, with so much power they took a continent from the most powerful nation on earth.
Maybe when this sinks in, we can recover that lost liberty.