What the hell are you talking about? If my net worth is $100 million and it drops by 90% I'm still filthy stinking rich and will never have to work again unless I blow through the money on extravagant spending.
Not all of them spend that extravagantly. Your personal favorite, Elon Musk, doesn't even live in an expensive house, or drive exotic cars, or anything like that.
And those numbers get a hell of a lot worse when you take into account billionaires.
I get that you have this image of them swimming around in a money bank like Scrooge McDuck because this is just the way you picture the world, but in reality that kind of money only exists on a ledger somewhere, and there isn't enough physical or even electronic money in the world to pay for 90% of it. They just have a large ownership stake in something that has a large market price. But a market price and what somebody might actually pay for it are two very different things.
This is before we talk about nepo babies and contacts and networking that you get to do when you're a member of the ruling class. The ruling elite have class solidarity while anyone that really works for a living does not. They take care of each other. We eat each other alive at the slightest provocation.
No, that's just you. You're obviously not even slightly aware of how many very rich people hate each other's guts, much like you hate mine for purely ideological reasons. Besides, all of the thought leaders who both founded and continue to define the very ideology you subscribe to were all these so called "nepo babies", yet you still look up to them anyways, but probably because you're not even aware of that.
I will never understand people that defend the ruling class. It is just the most bizarre thing to me. I can empathize with most things understanding the underlining emotions even if I don't feel them myself but that's one that is completely alien to me.
Rather, you mentally compartmentalize people into classes, and you have an undying hate for anybody who you unilaterally decide isn't in yours. People like me tell you that this doesn't do you any favors, but you're an old boomer set in his ways. If you could truly empathize as you claim, you'd know these people you "other" deal with the same things you do. Some of these guys spend nearly every waking moment doing work, even when supposedly on vacation. Some of them are narcissists, some of them are psychopaths, but traits like these are not at all unique to any particular "class" that you like to box these guys into.
And telling people they can unionize if they want is like telling Jews in Auschwitz they can go find another job. The people running the camp might have something to say about that...
Equating the economy to the Holocaust being a really bad idea aside (I've long since learned to expect this kind of thing from you,) who are the people running this prison your mind is obviously trapped in?
Again I will never understand why people pretend we don't have a ruling class after they've been told and shown that we do. I get the people who never encounter that information, it's not exactly talked about, but I don't get the people that have the information and just pretend it isn't there.
Nobody is pretending anything of the sort. You've created mental barriers and barricades that don't actually exist. This is either because you're old and bitter about having never made it anywhere in life, or you're just a clinically depressed negative Nancy. More likely a combination of the two.
Either way, you've demonstrated numerous times now, and very conclusively so, that you have very little understanding of how the world works, which is likely due to having so very little experience with it. Every time I've watched you try to explain different professions, or even explained your understanding of history or even civics, you've always gotten it incredibly wrong. It's therefore no stretch to say that you yourself genuinely believe there's some kind of invisible hand controlling you and everybody else, but that too is borne of naivety.
As you've made clear, repeatedly: You'll never understand.