I don’t think this has as much to do with “slavery” as it does with insecurity. I think these media/Hollywood celebrity types are astonishingly insecure; wouldn’t you be if you saw all the headlines written about you that people are reading in the supermarket tabloids while standing in line?
They certainly are aware that there are many more of us than of them, and if things got really nasty we would probably not want to sit down and have a polite “discourse” with them as much as we would simply want to tear down the gates of their mansions.
The phrase “bread and circuses” keeps coming to mind.
I never paid attention to them since their lives don’t interest me. But good points, there.