I would suggest that it's because they are Marxists, if not very smart ones, and they imagine that an uprising of the non-workers would usher in a glorious welfare paradise in which they - the media "elites" and those like them - would live in luxury, presiding with total authority over the "equality" of all those other losers. (It almost looks like I'm describing "The Hunger Games" here ;-).
A quick reading of a few unbiased history texts would reveal the substantial statistical likelihood of any individual journalist's ending up dead or in jail until he rots (see Russia, Cuba), but they don't read.
Every leftist, from the president down to the hemp-stinkinest 4th year junior college “liberal”,
thinks that HE will be holding the whip instead of
slaving under its lash.