Theres Blake Crouch dystopian novels Silo, (science-too woke for MAGA-Dark Matter), Wayward Pines- all good indicators of how the rich will react given the futility of their goals as most of US can’t function without a job, no education, no money, no health, house -NOW OPTIONAL- life itself-
Aside FYI The grandfather of this is H.Beam Piper Paratime en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratim... There are many imitators. None come even close... IMHO. But ST:TOS "Mirror Mirror" verse was fun.
As to your main point: the #plutocRat class see only as far as the next quarter. Fiscal year. They have little regard for their children and their children's future. Indeed they try to deny their own mortality: getting turned into cryogenic cellular mush. Still in vogue. DOH!
youtu.be/wxN1T1uxQ2g?...