That be the ruling class that Isaiah is referring to.
Those who seek positions of high status will go along with corruption in order to enrich and protect themselves.
And the higher the percentage of the population there is that work for large institutions, as opposed to small businesses, the easier it is for the ruling class to bribe and threaten the populace.
So keep sending your kids to college so they can become White collar wage slaves to all the powerful institutions who speak and march in lock step with each other, and seek to destroy all economic independence.
I was watching the series called Chosen last night with the wife. In the first episode you have Nicodemus, who is very much Jewish establishment, carried on a litter, and dressed in better clothing that even the Romans.