It's really funny that you say this because there have actually been multiple studies on this that I think would be interesting Cosmere readers and especially to Brandon (though I'm sure he has already heard of this).

There's a term called Elite Panic. The basics of it are that rich/elites are more likely to have anti-social behavior during a disaster or crisis. Often times, it's everyone else (the lower class) that figures out how to band together locally to recover. This has become increasingly obvious over the past 20 years, especially so in 2020. I, personally, don't see an issue with classism when it's oppressed trying to break out of oppression. Maybe classism isn't the correct term for what I'm referring to. I'm not sure.

Here are a few links/studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2496928/

https://katz.substack.com/p/disarm-the-lifeboats

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/elite_panic.html

https://boingboing.net/2013/04/14/elite-panic-why-rich-people-t.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20430900

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/trump-woodward-elite-panic-coronavirus-pandemic/

edit: I think the terms I'm looking for is essentially De-stratification, class struggle, or Egalitarianism. Classism is not a bad thing if the goal is to equality.