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I feel like i see this mostly in fantasy aimed at children and teens, but typically magic-powers stories don't treat the powers like a social class
Korra is the major exception, except that it takes place in a society with a real capitalist class that includes non-benders, and the critiques of "bender supremacy" as presented by the season's villain (intentionally) don't make any sense.
the legend of Korra is just ideologically incoherent like that.
Every time a writer does this it's like the biggest tell - you can see the moment where they realized they were describing the antagonist trying to change the world to the way things should be but then had to catch themselves and say "shit! We can't show that! make bad guy blow up a hospital or something!"
Another example being the...lol..."Flag Smashers" from Falcon and WS. They were trying to give medicine and food to starving people, but because that's cool and good, they had the main character literally bomb a hospital and say "that's how you get through to these people" like ok disney we get it you hate the poors
Strong Dark Knight rises vibes. Getting rid of rich people and police means also getting nuked. The ony thing keeping us from nuking ourselves is that it would destroy capital.