do the wealthy control or do the city riff raff control?
The wealthy withdraw their support of maintaining the civil order, or worse, fund the growth of organizations like “Occupy Oakland” or “Occupy Berkeley” or”Occupy Watts”, or wherever civil unrest is the instrument to break up the existing order.
This will never reach THEIR homes, of course. William Randolph Hearst’s Castle at San Simeon was but an extreme example of this insular kind of life, but there are many much smaller (but still opulent) enclaves where the “common folk” shall never enter.
Until they storm the gates.