The ideal utopian society in the eyes of the elite is a small ruling class which owns all the wealth and a large working class that is totally dependent on the ruling class. A middle class messes all that up.
From the feudal society, to the communists. The few enlightened should rule and all other just do what they are told.
The middle class does not fit to this system, but provides all the real innovation and progress.
These “progressives” are the most regressive, backward part of the society.