“and a two-tier social structure results”
Without a doubt that is happening. Lords and Serfs is now upon us. It is so easy to manipulate the stupid.
We will continue the bifurcation.
I suspect it will be within 5 years that people will no longer attend school, that somehow public paid educations will cease and that truancy laws will be abolished completely. The education system will loose its grip on the money, and that will end it.
Only the “nerds” will go to school. We are racing to the bottom and the elites want that and the people do not want civilized standards. They want hand to mouth feeding.
People love their socialism.
However, remember, it's the intelligent, truthful, and disciplined who are rising to the top and the stupid who are continuing their descent.