Kids can be more cruel than a health insurance company?

Doubt it. They will just never leave their island compounds and other fortresses. There have been many news stories lately of these guys building up compounds and bunkers. Many of them off-shore and entirely unreachable by the general public.

Many of these CEO types never interact with the general public without many armed men around them. I would not expect them to act any more ethical than they currently are.

That won't hold people back.

We've all been watching how effective drones have been in the Ukraine war and there's nothing stopping a motivated individual with nothing to lose from droning a corrupt elected official, a cop who brutalizes innocents or an oligarch.

It's just a matter of time before this happens.

See "cyberpunk", Gibson et al.

The rich will isolate themselves further behind even more surveillance technology, more physical barriers, and, because that is never enough, inordinate amounts of paid thugs.

Not so fast, probably just killer bots…thugs are screwed too

and what health insurance will they provide to those paid thugs and the thugs' extended families, hmm?

Nah, folks’ll forget about it in a few days and go back to perpetuating or worrying about stuff like trans & immigrant bashing.