“How do “elites” benefit from this compared to a peaceful, productive society? They don’t want to be able to go to fancy eateries anymore? They want to worry about home invasions, carjackings, street attacks, etc? Doesn’t make sense. They should want the populace happy and quiet.”
Convicts sitting in prison generally do not take kindly to requests to vote even for thieving Democrats.
The theory of elites destroying society doesn’t make sense to me in any way shape or form. I’ve only known one billionaire, and he was a great man who helped other succeed in business and was famous for his large charity donations. His parents were Armenian immigrants. His name was George Mitchell, he was a Texas oil wildcatter. I staked some of his wells as a teen. When I married he gave me one of his gorgeous condos to use during our honeymoon. He also invented the drill bit that could go horizontal and sold the patent to Baker Hughes. That revolutionized drilling, leading to a lot of wealth and better jobs/pay for many people.