The masses are probably the 'baboons' here for thinking that equality can be achieved via pay cuts. The masses are being 'anaesthesized' while their organs are harvested for the benefit of the elite.
This story is about how our political and economic systems are designed and work. Our capitalist systems encourage every commodity to be over priced, and because capital is mostly concentrated among a few persons, politics becomes a means of mass control and deception. By calling Ababu a baboon, and paying him for it, and if we're so incensed vote him out, we are unwittingly affirming the cause of 'our' affliction.
The big task is on the masses changing their thinking about how they meet their needs, how they create value and distribute it. It's the kind of responsibility that many would like to delegate to others. Why? My guess is because humans have only been able to build their knowledge and power incrementally, different humans have different subjective experiences, and the costs of maintaining society through elaborate organization and mostly hard labor. This lowers the number of elites relative to total population.
But can conditions shift to facilitate more people being aware of their power in whatever station or class? I believe we're living in such conditions. That wazua can create a collective and interactive intelligence despite physical distance and constraints is evidence enough for this.
Our institutions are failing because the thinking behind them is ineffective.