Seems like the 21st century is starting with an unraveling of what was achieved, or perceived to have been achieved, by the 20th century in terms of any and all human rights. We aren't even going back to the middle ages, we are living in an era of exceptional barbarity. All done by highly detached murderous overlords who really think that they have already successfully replaced us with their machines and now want to be rid of us.
In times past the elites did run away and make their own places after they robbed everyone blind. Feudalism in the Middle Ages got started in some areas by former Roman nobility who just left the cities, started their own self-sufficient estates, and got people to work for them as serfs. No joke, that happened.
But now? I really do not think the planet can sustain that. They aren't going to survive, but they will live a little longer than us, and that is all they probably really care about...