All large scale sociological systems have to be based on abstraction. The way society functions is honestly not dissimilar to the way computation works.
Not in like an AI nerd/rokkos basilisk way, but in a "we're all transistors in a machine" way. Once you can wrap your head around that the claims that billionaires and CEOs are important quickly fades. They're side effects of the lower level organization of the machine, and you can at any point re-shape the abstract superstructure using the base, and then from there, use that new superstructure to improve the base.
To be fair, it's from Madagascar, so I don't think it was necessarily meant to be racist. Still dumb of the teacher to not maybe think for like 2 seconds about how that version might be a bit problematic in that context.