Like Cockroaches (Side Note: Who Came Up With The Name "Cockroach"?)

They won't even have to release any kind of super virus, they'll just keep us in the situation we are currently in where we have to spend all our time working just to scrape together enough money to pay for necessities, so we don't have extra time to protest and organize against them or demand better pay

That's the purpose of welfare, to keep our bellies just full enough that we won't get up and rebel. Give us our daily bread - that's what the Roman government did and even stuck in that prayer. Every Roman household was allowed one loaf of bread per day if they wanted it for free, this way they'd be full enough to be happy.

The virus will just make it happen faster. They're not going to want to be underground that long.

The upper classes require lower classes to exist. In addition to defining them by comparison, it is the lower classes that do the labor for them.

You don't really think the 1% are going to pick up pickaxes and dig out their own diamonds and gold ore, do you? They can't even drive their own cars, who's going to pick their strawberries and keep the sewers running for them, their kids?