“One of the conclusions that we saw emerging from our discussion of Maya kings, Greenland Norse chieftains, and Easter Island chiefs is that, in the long run, rich people do not secure their own interests and those of their children if they rule over a collapsing society and merely buy themselves the privilege of being the last to starve or die.”

― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Like Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," but with the movie Armageddon on loop forever.

They'd die sooner than that after realizing there's no one else left below them to feel superior to.