You can move wealth into all sorts of assets that you can then protect with that wealth... When the Roman empire fell the rich did not suffer only the poor did. Same thing will repeat.

> When the Roman empire fell the rich did not suffer

How do you define “suffer”?

They lost their previous lifestyle and creature comforts. Their public infrastructure fell into disrepair and the ability to build its like was lost. Trade networks were disrupted and many products and materials became unavailable. They lost much of their power and wealth (lands, houses, possessions, businesses, ...). Many were killed. In Rome proper foreign invaders came and demanded tribute, sacked their city, tortured them for information about where their wealth was hidden, stripped all of their public buildings of valuables, and so on.

I wouldn’t say that. Roman governance was distributed and the governors turned into petty Kings. Some held on to land and gold. Many affiliated with the church, etc. There are probably families in Europe who can trace back to those ancestors.

The difference today is that intellectual property is more highly valued. When law and order breaks down, software, for example, has zero marginal value.

Didn't work out so well for the Aztecs.

Unless pale skin aliens from distant lands are coming to Earth on ships to cause our problems I see no parallels between their situation and ours.

The pale skin guys were the catalyst. The Spanish rounded up everyone who hated the Aztecs (ie. everyone who interacted with them) and used that with their horses, guns and crossbows as shock troops to defeat them.

Future conquests (Inca, etc) were aided by the devastation of disease that wiped out stove populations.

Our situation isn’t so different. Look at how quickly the Soviet state degraded into near anarchy and what happened when the pieces stabilized.

Ok, French Revolution, revolution in Russia, the Chinese civil war, in all of those cases rich people were the first targets.