Welcome to the most overused theme in the last 6 something years! I can't stress enough how much these books (generally trilogies, another overused writing style, but that can be another Rant) fully irritate the heck out of me.
Just please, please authors of now! Stop using this theme! Are you trying to ensure that the children of the future will suffer through a corrupt, classist society in which after some apocalyptic event has eradicated almost all the human species from the world the remaining humans left will be so greedy as to hog the surprisingly advanced technology of supposed technologically deficient societies and then enslave thei