I always figured this was a very effective way to deal with the wealthy who would scream about appropriation in the early phases of a social realignment.

They’ve done experimental communities for dementia patients set up to look like normal towns, but the shopkeepers are all staff, and the busses loop back at the end of the run, so there’s the tools to constantly monitor the patients and make sure they don’t wander away, while they feel like they have the dignity of independent living instead of an obvious rest home.

Do the same, but also make sure they’re on a captive network where they can pull up fibbed bank and brokerage statistics that tell them everything went up 15% per year, and staged broadcasts that says everyone is properly turning to face Wall Street and pray to the Line eight times a day. They’d never need to realize their assets had been nationalized years ago, they just think it’s permanent springtime in Jackson Hole or whatever.

After things take over, and they no longer hold influence or aspirational leverage, you release them back into general population. “Sorry, Elon, those numbers were faked, here’s 200 roubles and your assignment in the cobalt mines.”