Bread and Circuses was the old answer to social unrest.

The new bet is on surveiliance and security tech, the more autonomous the better. The owner class no longer needs to provide bread and circuses when they can constantly monitor for any sign of dissent and deploy enforcers without empathy or morals.

Property rights might not end up as sacrosanct as they hope. There's a series of slow-motion emergencies unfolding, and emergencies are often a place where all rights-- not just property rights-- get curtailed. If they keep up the "Let them eat cake" act, it's going to make them an easy target for a gritty reboot of 1917.