I read your post as “is solved through feudalism”! I wonder if that’s the answer...
Feudalism or neo-feudalism, is the system advanced by the current regime and the elites. When its harder to improve your financial position and advance your career or business, when we have more and more restrictions on travel, when we have an economy based on cronyism, when justice depends on who you know, when the people lose their natural rights, you have feudalism.