It's kind of telling that these billionaires think it's easier (or at least cheaper?) to flee than invest in maintaining a functioning civil society. I guess they're hoping that somebody else (kiwis, apparently) has done that work elsewhere.
But let's study it from a historical point of view, what reasons do we have to believe that a strategy like that would work? Alexander II, Czar of Russia, the grandfather of Tsar Nicolas, instigated a lot of drastic land reforms, he eliminated serfdom from Russia, but the revolution happened nonetheless. In fact he himself was killed by the revolutionaries.
It would have been far far cheaper an easier for Tsars to have invested in an escape route.
"your" money
>It would have been far far cheaper an easier for Tsars to have invested in an escape route.
They did actually.