How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered after 70 years

[haele]

5. So they tell themselves.

Their bolt holes won't keep them fed and kept in the way they are used to.
No trips to a private Caribbean Island, no spa retreat, no golf games on Pebble Beach or Augusta, no foi gras and truffle salad tapas, few servants, less infrastructure, fewer of the "free resources" that they are used to just accepting due to their wealth and/or status.

They would have to give up a lot more than they think they are going to once they make lives hell for the poors beneath them. Especially when they have to deal with erstwhile "trusted servants" who will quickly realize that without a greater world those a-holes can preen and flash their wealth around them, those "employers" are relatively weak and powerless.

I doubt that those wealthy snots would survive more than 5 years in their compounds after they trash civilization.

Haele