More accurate to call it “alignment for plebes and not for the masters of the plebes”. Which I think we all kind of expect coming from the leaders of our society. That’s the way human societies have always worked.

I’m sure access to military grade tech is only one small slice in the set of advantages the masters get over the mastered in any human society.

That’s ahistorical see Dawn of Humanity for rebuttal to naturalness of imposed hierarchy