We once read a book called "Feed" in high school - a ham fisted anti-capitalist book. Wherein citizens are 100% connected to an internet like service that only exists to sell them products. 90% of the class couldnt get it. Even when the teacher sat down and explained the entire plot of the book they still couldnt wrap their head around it.
Yeah it is weird as Huxley comes of as a hodgepodge of ideas similar to other sci fi writers during the time (or you wind up with outright fash like Heinlein). The book has quite a lot of commentaries for the start of what would have been the beginning of mass marketing and consumption as seen by Huxley and also borrows heavily from outdated tropes to communicate these thoughts (again John as the use of some type of divine man born beyond the current sin of the society he dwells in), and that these concerns do indeed com from a place of more concern for how it impacts their own social status and interactions than actual working class concerns (much more in the book is focused towards a degradation of human intellect/spirit with the low tier cloned workers such as the Gammas relegated as consumer cattle by all the characters with no actual ability to self actualize beyond their "station").