If that's what happens, and "leaving us to die" results in very many people actually dying, then we'll start killing rich people until they realize that this isn't the world that they want to live in either.

When people are left to die, some of them get violent. They don't have to all do so. There are enough people who will, who have guns, who know how to use them.

Rome had "bread and circuses". But if you leave out the bread...