The true litmus test is to look at history, during times when social order completely broke down. How did the elites fare then? Would the French revolution be

The true litmus test is to look at history, during times when social order completely broke down. How did the elites fare then? Would the French revolution be a good example? Or is that event already biased against the elites? Or would a hypothetical future collapse of society be also biased against the elites?